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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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mx8NM TIL that while repairing a whale enclosure divers during the cold war heard a human-like voice saying "out, out, out," and got out of the water to see nobody. A beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech and attempted to communicate with them.
VMXB4 TIL: December 5th is Krampusnacht or "Krampus Night" when men dressed as Krampus drink alcohol, run through the streets, and chase delinquent children around and hit them with sticks. Many anthropologists believe the tradition is pre-Christian and goes back to pagan mythology.
5de9 TIL that before the advent of air travel, landowners used to own an infinitely tall column of air rising above their property. Today there’s no official verdict on where property rights end, but U.S. policy is that anything above 500 feet is navigable airspace.
0d7Kp TIL The song "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by the British during the Revolutionary War to mock Americans. "Yankee doodle dandy" meant an uncultured, effeminate, American. When the Americans began winning, they started singing the song themselves to mock the British.
N77bJ TIL that guitar great Skunk Baxter of The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan is also a DoD consulting expert on ballistic missiles and chairs the Congressional Advisory Board on Missile Defense.