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TIL a man died in a helmet law protest while not wearing a helmet when he crashed his motorcycle. Medical experts say he would have survived if he had a helmet on during the accident.

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8vjV TIL Of ‘Project Thor’: a terrifying weapon system that is shockingly simple - 6 m. Tungsten rods launched from near Earth orbit, invisible to radar, could strike anywhere on earth, impact speed of Mach 10, impact equal to a tactical nuclear bomb but with no explosives.
oB8E TIL that in 1940, scientists concluded that consumption of ice cream was the leading cause of the polio epidemic, solely based on the stats that there were more cases of polio in the summer, which was also when children ate the most ice cream.
m1JLE TIL that the term "OK" originated during the 1830s as a humorous abbreviation of "oll korrect," which was a misspelling of "all correct.
nroo TIL that the inventor of birth control was not only a devout Catholic, but designed aspects of the pill in a specific way in order to achieve acceptance from the Catholic church, convinced that they would quickly adopt it.
aV4A TIL the word ‘Hipster’ was invented by Jack Smiley ;-) in 1941.It meant 'a know-it-all’.