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TIL that car robberies are so common in Oakland, CA that some residents roll down their windows and unlock their doors to prevent damage to their vehicles.

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rRxPy TIL in 1963, George Blonsky patented a table that used centrifugal force to assist in childbirth. The expectant mother would be strapped down and spun at high speed, and the baby caught in a net.
woOOP TIL All 27 of Uranus moons are named after William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters.
Wk6lA Today I Learned that "sideburns" get their name from Ambrose Burnside, a former Union general and U.S. senator, who had extravagant whiskers.
P1MXL TIL Tyrannosaurus rex and Brachiosaurus, both depicted in Jurrasic Park movie, existed further apart from each other in time, around 90 million years, than humans do to T. Rex, approx. 65 million years.
yVZrw TIL that readiness potentials are a kind electroencephalogram signal that appears before the intention to perform actions, so they were thought to predict awareness of voluntary movement. But this recent study have found them also before the partecipants decided not to move.