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TIL that left turns make up less than 10% of all UPS truck turns. This policy was put into place in 2004 and has saved UPS 10 million gallons of fuel.

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0byp TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: “That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case.”
XEXA8 TIL Common kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getula) are notorious ophiophages, and will consume rattlesnakes as readily as they will garter snakes. Immune to the venom of native pit vipers and capable of consuming a snake nearly as long as they are, kingsnakes also consume frogs, lizards, turtles & rodents.
pZ6G TIL American schoolchildren rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries….but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
lQw1 TIL that Michael Jordan once refused to endorse a Democrat against a Republican because “Republicans buy sneakers too.”
ZNWY TIL although many Simpsons characters are named after Matt Groening’s family members, he refused to name the Simpsons’ Grandpa after his own grandfather, Abraham, leaving it to other writers to choose a name. Coincidentally, they chose Abraham, unaware that it was the name of Matt’s grandfather.