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TIL that drivers over 85 have almost twice as many fatalities per mile travelled as teenagers in the US.

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kGW7 TIL a 20-year old anonymous British man from Birmingham dresses up as Spider Man in the night to help homeless people - by buying them food from the supermarket.
PYvZ TIL that 2GAT123 is a license plate number used in many different movies.
W8EY TIL Due to the Taliban dynamiting two famous 4th century giant statues of Buddha for their status as idols, excavators of the site discovered a cave network filled with 5th-9th century artwork and another, previously unknown giant statue of Buddha within
m7YE TIL: the bikini swimsuit was named after the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. The inventor wanted to imply the bikini was as momentous an invention as the new bomb. This was a time when beautiful women were “bombshells” and anything cool was “atomic.”
Merl0 TIL that in 1998, the City of Des Moines, Iowa rejected a pedestrian bridge design for being "too modern." The design was based on plans made by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1504.