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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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yVGdp TIL that the boy from Spy Kids is married to Meghan Trainor
9wYNG TIL that there is a strong positive correlation between how fast someone walks and the population of the city that they're from. If a city is 10x larger than another, people will walk 24% faster on average.
4X4ga TIL in the early 1900s, women used hatpins to fend off sexual harassers in the streets. These pins were so effective in fending off assaulters that legislation was proposed to curb these “accessories to assault.” Men would often come away with wounds that were “not serious, but very painful.”
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