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TIL there is a 6% rise in car accidents following DST in the spring. It also negatively affects people with depression, anxiety and/or SAD.

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6ENjm Trillions upon trillions of viruses fall from the sky each day.
REDj TIL that in 2005, an Ethiopian girl was kidnapped and beaten by 7 men until a pride of lions chased her attackers off. The lions then stayed and defended her until help arrived.
7rkPX TIL that in 2010 RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America) tried to sue Lime Wire for a total of $75 trillion which was more than earth even had at that time
5VdJR TIL that the scientific definition of a Kilogram uses the Planck constant(which gives the relationship between energy/mass and frequency of a photon) in its formula. Pg131
OLmY TIL that in 2006, it took Akira Haraguchi, a retired Japanese engineer, 16 hours to recite the first 100,000 digits of pi from memory only. To prove that the exercice was legitimate, everything was filmed, even his trips to the toilet. Despite this, he has yet to receive a Guinness World Record.