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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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Y7GjA TIL the Earth's radius is about 21km (13mi) smaller at the poles compared to the equator.
VMN9G TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan. Launched in response to the Korean Axe Murder Incident where Americans trimming a tree in the DMZ were killed by North Koreans, the US went back to cut it down. Bringing with them overwhelming firepower with hundreds of soldiers (some with suicide vests) and air support
XE08R TIL Actor Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Star Trek, MI:) once pretended to be kidnapped by aliens, tweeting he was going to check some noises in his attic, then disappearing from Twitter for 3 days. He re-appeared 5 mins after the time-of-day he "disappeared" & tweeted "everything's fine, nothing there".
ZplRv TIL that the Etruscan shrew has the fastest heartbeat of any mammal, at upto 1,500 beats per minute.
rR9kd TIL of The Mutiny Hotel - the early 80s cocaine-fueled Miami hotspot where the CIA partied side by side with notorious drug traffickers, celebrities and politicians.