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Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.

BNMr TIL that Lord of the Rings takes place in the real world, and that we are now in the Seventh Age.
xVEZb TIL In 1911, Mexican Government killed over 300 chinese inmigrants in the city of Torreón, Coahuila. The event touched off a diplomatic crisis between China and Mexico. At one point it was rumored that China had even dispatched a warship to Mexican waters
KYo56 TIL that in certain parts of Asia, they hire strippers to perform at funerals. These "funeral strippers", are part of a highly unusual Asian tradition. It's believed that having strippers at the funeral attracts more people, which is seen as a way to honor the deceased.
RWoQ TIL that the smallest Hawaiian Island, widely known as The Forbidden Isle, is owned by two brothers that inherited from their great-great-grandmother who purchased it from King Kamehameha V for $10,000 in gold. They have turned down all offers to sell it including $1 billion from the U.S. government
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