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TIL Eddie Murphy stayed away from SNL for over 30 years because a joke David Spade made

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ANpRB TIL A 2011 University of Michigan study found that, despite driving 30% less annually, female drivers accounted for a disproportionate majority of car accidents.
e0lvk TIL that despite it’s more than half a century old, SR-71 Blackbird still holds the official Air Speed Record for a manned airbreathing jet aircraft with a speed of 2,193 mph (3,530 km/h)!
b9nXj TIL that skeletal muscles are strong enough to break bones. After tetanus contraction, the bacteria interferes with normal muscle nerve function. Muscular contractions can become strong enough to break the spine.
4X56o TIL that Microsoft patented a chat-bot that would let you talk to deceased people. It would cull "social data" such as images, messages and voice data from the chosen individual and that data would be used to train a chat-bot to "converse and interact in the personality of the specific person"
lor5K TIL Julia Child passed away from kidney failure at her retirement home, Casa Dorinda in Montecito, California, on August 13, 2004, shortly after eating French onion soup, made from one of her own recipes by her longtime assistant.