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TIL Women die 17% more than men in car crashes. And counting frontal car crashes the injury rate is also 73% higher.

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JBY8 TIL llamas are often kept with sheep because when an animal attacks the flock the llamas will attack viciously even to death
d8jZ8 TIL the earliest concept of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack did not include Bee Gees songs, but the band ultimately decided to contribute and wrote songs for the film "virtually in a single weekend".
R7bYa TIL Snake Eyes, one of the 16 original G.I. Joe action figures, was designed to save Hasbro money. As a ninja, the character was completely molded from black plastic, even given a mask to prevent detailing a face. The figure wasn't even painted, but became one of the most popular G.I. Joe figures.
7O9L TIL that because spiders are actually quite resistant to radiation whilst their prey species aren’t, the spider numbers around Chernobyl have exploded, as the spiders can catch the now-weakened prey insects more easily, whilst being resistant to the radioisotopes present in their food
eK4g TIL the band ‘Blink 182’ was originally called 'Blink’, but upon hearing there was another band called 'Blink’, they renamed their band 'Blink 182’, after the number of times Al Pacino says “f*ck” in Scarface