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TIL Most new cars have a hidden keyhole so you can get in even if the car/fob battery is dead

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oB1l7 TIL that Joker director Todd Phillips made a documentary about violent punk rocker GG Allin and asked Allin's friend, the incarcerated serial killer clown John Wayne Gacy, to paint the poster art. Gacy agreed but only if Philips sent a compromising photo of himself, to which Philips obliged.
e0L6L TIL There is an Austrailan fungus called "The Stonemaker Fungus" that only shows up right after a forest fire. They live underground in a stone-like mycelium and pop up through the ashes 2-10 days after the fire, sometimes as infrequent as every 100 years.
b9vyj TIL Emily Rosa became the youngest person to publish in a medical journal (at 11 years old) when her school science project was published. It demonstrated that Reiki (a type of alternative medicine) practitioners could not detect the alleged "life force" under experimental conditions.
O44a TIL the more educated you are in a field, the more likely you are to buy generic brands related to that field. For example, pharmacists more likely to buy generic aspirin than name-brand.
j6ela TIL The flicker fusion rate for a dog (the frequency of light that can be seen as fluid movement) is different for them so they see things on TV as more choppy