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TIL it’s illegal in Germany to drive your car without destination

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5Yw4Q TIL that because Subarus use unconventional construction and high strength steel in the B pillars, first responders had to develop new techniques for extracting crash victims.
Z866v TIL when Gandhi's wife came down with pneumonia, he denied her penicillin, even though doctors said it would cure her; he insisted the new medicine was an alien substance her body should not take in. She died from it in 1944. Just years later, he took quinine to treat his own malaria. He survived.
wLa6M TIL The half-life of an isotope of Tellerium is 160 Trillion times greater than the Universe's Age (Aprox. 13.8 billion) . The very-long-lived radioisotope Tellerium-128 thus has the longest known half-life among all the Radionuclides of around 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
ADjr4 TIL as a young boy Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) had his village occupied by nazis, his family forced to work while living in a 3 by 3 meter mud hut for 21 months, saw his little brother being hanged (but saved by his parents) and his two older siblings deported for slave labor (who escaped).
N7o4b TIL Lucille Ball was so frightened of birds in the house that she refused to stay in hotels that had pictures of birds and tore down expensive Japanese wallpaper in her house that had birds in its design. Her fear of birds dates to when her father died shortly after a bird flew into the family home.