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TIL In China, drivers will rather run over and kill the pedestrians they hit, as death compensation fees is like lower than medical for survivors

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PjQn TIL the real-life Captain Sobel, from Band of Brothers (David Scwimmer) shot himself in the 60s and died of malnutrition in the 80s. No services were held for his death.
m1Yyp Today I learned that upper class women in the Tudor era exposed their breast for fashion. Even Elizabeth was known to greet the French ambassador with her entire breast exposed according to one article by Louis Montrose. It is even documented she would sometimes have her belly exposed as well!
Okv7 TIL 50% of all nail salons in the USA are owned & operated by Vietnamese immigrants and their descendents.
OR07 TIL Who framed Roger Rabbit is loosely based off of a true conspiracy by General Motors to purchase & dismantle streetcar systems in American cities between 1938-1950
MeyVB TIL a shark at a New Zealand aquarium was discovered to be pregnant when another shark attacked her and 4 baby sharks emerged from the open wound. Staff were surprised and found 4 more babies in her. If she’d given birth at night, then her babies would have been eaten alive by other sharks.