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TIL Modern cars have become so quiet when driving, automakers are resorting to playing fake engine sounds from the vehicle's speakers.

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gMw4L TIL as ruled by a court in China, "no one would in good conscience help someone unless they felt guilty" and thus is why nobody seems to help each other in situations like hit-and-runs
Ay8n TIL it is “required” by the FDIC for financial institution employees to take two weeks consecutive vacation every year to help uncover cases of fraud. The logic being that someone else must do your work for 2 weeks and said employee will be unable to cover up their work for that length of time.
GARJJ TIL the reason a double boiler (bain-marie) has such a consistent temperature is because the water in the bottom pot cannot be heated past it’s boiling point. Any additional energy will be used to convert the liquid to gas.
xVQvg TIL: Yoko Ono was not ~just~ the wife of The Beatles' famed musician John Lennon. She's also a longtime "conceptual artist" in her own right, sometimes making art like "Mend Piece," which includes these instructions for the viewer: "TAKE YOUR FAVORITE CUP. BREAK IT IN MANY PIECES WITH A HAMMER."
a8VBy TIL hair smells bad when burned because keratin needs large amounts of the sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine for polymer crosslinking, which give it it's rigid properties