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TIL in Japan, when you buy a car, you have to prove you have somewhere to park it

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KVo9 TIL during the Cold War, students at Stuyvesant High School built a particle accelerator in their school’s basement. However, when they powered it on, it “tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area.” > $10,000 were spent on the machine, but no one knows what happened to it.
0wXRN TIL the average adult excretes 1 to 3 pints of gas up to 23 times a day through the anus
eplZ5 TIL Mowing your lawn every two weeks, instead of every week, increases bee populations by 30 percent.
8apVG TIL The beat "Shave and a haircut" used when knocking on doors is highly offensive in Mexico, as it is commonly used to stand in for the rhythmically similar vulgar phrase "chinga tu madre, cabrón" (English: "F*** your mother, asshole!")
YnmB TIL that some lizards will do ‘pushups’ if they are spotted, advertising to the predator just how strong and healthy they are - that pursuing them is just not energetically profitable.