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TIL under California law, you could go to jail for squealing your tires. According to Vehicle Code 23109(c), “exhibition of speed” is a crime.

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RWR8 TIL that beginning in the 1940s through the 1960s, the Quebec government collaborated with the Catholic Church to falsely certify 20,000 “orphaned” children as mentally ill and confine them to psychiatric institutions. The orphans were then subjected to medical experimentation and sexual abuse.
78V4X TIL Orca whales...are actually dolphins.
OGxk6 TIL background music help with concentration - it increases task-focus and decreases mind-wandering
BLex TIL Mengistu, the brutal communist dictator of Ethiopia, who had thousands of people executed and may have personally murdered Emperor Haile Selassie is alive and well under asylum in Zimbabwe
dDRDr TIL that the Cat costume Mike Myers wore in the 2003 live-action Cat in the Hat film was made out of wool and human hair.