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OoNyR TIL under California law, you could go to jail for squealing your tires. According to Vehicle Code 23109(c), “exhibition of speed” is a crime.
W70jY TIL that the inventor of the rotary, Felix Wankel, was an ardent anti-Semite, Nazi party member and even did two years as an SS officer
4XMng TIL that Hypoxia impedes judgment to the point of being unable to recognise a playing cards suit or number.
aYnN TIL that in WW2, the allied powers used fake “ghost armies” to intimidate and confuse Hitler and other Axis powers. They were most known for deceiving the Germans into thinking they had a powerful unit of men away from Normandy on D-Day.
4EGg TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.