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TIL Not using your blinker is more than 2 times as likely to cause an accident than texting while driving

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X0OJk TIL Walmart is not allowed in NYC, but Target is
9wk17 TIL in 1931, during the Great Depression, there were so many news accounts of starving USA citizens that colonial-era Cameroon in west Africa raised money for Americans as aid. They collected $3.77 - about $70 today.
95Br TIL in the 1986 NBA draft, Len Bias, the #2 pick by the Boston Celtics died of cocaine overdose 2 days after his draft night. He is considered by some sportswriters to be one of the greatest players not to play at the professional level.
X0DwR TIL that all representations of the Egyptian god Aten were accompanied by a sort of footnote. It stated that the art was only an imperfect representation of something that transcended nature, and could not be fully or adequately represented.
kO1P4 TIL that in Hawaiian Pidgin, an english based creole language, the Bible is called “Da Jesus Book”