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TIL that Russia has so many dashcams because drivers use them to avoid road rage induced fights, denied hit and run insurance claims, and extortion scams.

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QjbX TIL in 2003, a website called Scroogle was created by Google critic Daniel Brandt, to allow users to search Google anonymously. It stayed active until 2012, where it was shut down by Brandt due to a combination of throttling of search requests by Google and a DDoS attack.
v1dJD TIL That Jason Todd died in Batman because of a poll where calling 1-(900)-720-2660 voted in saving Jason or 1-(900)-720-2666 to kill him after 10,614 votes where 5,343 in favor of killing him and 5,271 in saving him and it was later revealed that one guy called to kill Jason over 100 times
nY17 Jennifer Lawrence’s casting as Katniss Evergreen in ‘The Hunger Games’ films was condemned by many fans and professional critics, who considered her to be too fat for the role of a starving girl.
GYj4 TIL Carl Sagan wanted to put “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles on the Voyager Golden Record. Although The Beatles favoured the idea, EMI refused to release the rights and when the probes were launched in 1977 the song was not included.
gMDvy Today I Learned that scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid estimated to be worth $39 million (USD) per gallon.