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TIL The Tesla Model S is so safe it broke the crash-testing equipment

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wj8 TIL in 2008 a Texas schoolgirl was thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to cheer “put it in” for a football player who raped her.
YrvA TIL that living in an area where you can see the ocean has been found to reduce psychological stress, even after controlling for factors such as income and neighborhood status.
JNr8 TIL Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains after Hurricane Katrina as he felt it would be insensitive to people who have lost their possessions.
4RKR TIL the individual U.S. federal income tax rate in the early 1960s for the highest incomes was 91%
EgnpP TIL that in 2005, Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.