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TIL In the month after media coverage of plane accidents, road traffic and road accidents in the U.S. increase. For every article published about a plane accident in a major news source, 1.3 additional road accidents happen the next month.

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R5Nxj TIL A nuru massage, originating from Japan, is a full body-to-body massage using an ultra-slippery gel usually made out of seaweed. It invokes the sensation of sex without actively engaging in intercourse
M7Kd8 TIL Segregation academies are private, mostly Christian, schools founded after Brown v. Board of Education to prevent white children from having to go to school with black children. Many remain open today.
pX9A TIL that Nazi scientists tried to reverse-engineer extinct animals through selective breeding, such as the Aurochs and Wisent, as part of their effort to “restore” a primeval Germany.
4G05 TIL of the 2038 Problem, a computer science problem theorized to be worse than Y2K. 2038 day will occur on January 19th at 3:14:07 UTC, when the number of seconds since the clock started (January 1st 1971), passes the maximum integer in 32 bits (2^31).
W7w1X TIL In Sweden, for drivers as young as 15, a car can be modified to limit max speed at 19mph, these are called A-Traktor, there is a full culture of these among the teens