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TIL that roundabouts reduce fatalities from accidents by 90%. They also lower wait times and save on gas.

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5Yp09 TIL people with nerve damage in their fingers don't get "prune fingers" when soaked in water. This is because wrinkling is a reflex of the autonomic nervous system which causes blood vessels under the skin to constrict. This reflex is theorized to have evolved to improve our handling of wet objects.
GAoNN TIL The inventor of the Keurig coffee pod system, John Sylvan, sold his ownership of the product for $50,000 in 1997.
0k65 TIL two 300-ton weights sit at opposite ends of the 58th floor of the Hancock Tower in Boston because occupants on higher floors were getting motion sickness during high winds.
VBLE8 TIL of Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener, aged 10 and 13, who were shot dead during an attempt to escape the Berlin Wall in 1966. Their families were notified of their deaths a few days later. "Officially" Jörg had drowned in a lake and Lothar had died from an electric shock near Leipzig.
jj6n TIL a Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn’t want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.