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TIL that the long safety grooves in concrete were originally designed by NASA and have reduced highway accidents by 85%

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JX4j TIL that to combat confusion, television broadcasts of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ in Japan include text in the corner of the screen to remind viewers which level of the dream each scene takes place in.
Z8Bmv TIL all female mammals have a clitoris
XEX8P TIL a Graveyard Spiral is a phenomenon when a plane is titled and flying in a descending spiral, but the pilot doesn't detect the tilting and tries to correct the descent by pulling up, but this only tightens the spiral until the plane crashes.
DQ4Gv TIL in the 1600s, a gardener created the first English cabinet of curiosities, "The Ark," an international collection of seeds, bulbs, art, weapons, and other "curiosities," inside a large London house that became the first museum open to the public in England, the Musaeum Tradescantianum.
D1yXe Til there is a banana variety that is blue in color and has the taste and texture of vanilla icecream