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TIL 'smart' motorways in the UK, with 70mph speed limits, are built without a breakdown lane. Coroners have ruled that this has contributed to several fatalities, and referred Highways England to prosecutors to consider a corporate manslaughter charge.

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dDX1Z TIL that even though Polar bears and Penguins can live in similar types of habitat, we will never find them together in the wild. They live on the opposite ends of Earth.
grlOW TIL that the deepest place on Earth is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. It’s 36,201 feet (11,034m) deep. That’s almost seven miles! it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
nW57 TIL that contrary to popular belief, Goldfish do not have three second memories. Infact, tests have shown that they have a memory greater than three months.
dxLd TIL of an Austrian man named Adam Rainer, who is the only person in medical history to have been classified as a dwarf and a giant during his lifetime.
b6nv7 TIL Jet Li turned down a role in The Matrix Reloaded because Hollywood producers wanted to record and copy all of his martial arts moves into a digital library, with all IP rights owned by them