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TIL automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking." At that time, "jay" was a derogative term for people from rural areas, like "hick."

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eoo5 TIL Electric eels are not actually true eels at all and are more closely related to catfish.
8a9gV TIL: After a 1979 court case ruled the city could not be held responsible for people tripping and falling on cracked sidewalks unless the city had been previously notified of the hazard, the Trial Lawyers formed a committee to map every crack, pothole, and other hazard in the city and report them.
5VK4R TIL the O2 arena in Greenwich has 12 giant pillars jutting out of the roof to represent the 12 hours on a clock face, and the 12 months of the year. It also has a 365-meter diameter to represent the days in the year, and a 52-meter height to represent the weeks in a year.
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
X0g7R TIL About Miriam Rodríguez, the 57 year old Mexican mother who hunted down her daughters kidnappers.