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TIL that there is a 17-percent increase in traffic fatalities on the Monday after clocks spring forward

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ZplDp TIL A big reason men don’t wear hats like they did in the early 20th century is due to the advent of cars!
neZRd TIL Daniel Berrigan— an anti-war priest wanted by the FBI for raiding a draft office & burning draft cards as part of the “Catonsville Nine” in 1968— emerged from hiding at a Cornell University rally, gave a speech, & was smuggled offstage inside of a large puppet. He evaded capture for 4 months.
4amN TIL: That your car speedometer could show an error of almost ten km/h
GY5mN TIL the closest living relatives of hippos are cetaceans, which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
4X8Ya TIL that there’s a scientist who won both Nobel and Ignobel prizes. Latter for levitating frogs, former for creation of graphene.