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TIL Adaptive headlights are not allowed in the US, but will be in the next 2 years.

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EavV TIL barns are painted red because red paint is cheap. The paint is cheap because iron is plentiful, and iron is plentiful because it is the final element formed out of a star’s death.
KQ4R TIL Iran only classes three organizations as terrorist groups, and two of them are the CIA and the American Army.
PZXw TIL if the history of the universe was condensed into a year, the Milky Way would form on May 15, life on earth would appear on September 21, and the dinosaurs would go extinct on December 30. Modern humans would evolve on December 31 at 11:52 PM and Columbus would discover America at 11:59:58 PM.
KOgO6 TIL in 2013, a prisoner in Sweden escaped “because he had a toothache and wanted to go to the dentist.” He broke out prison, visited the dentist, and turned himself back in where he received an extra day to his month-long sentence as punishment.
W71E9 TIL about the worst shark attack in recorded history. The U.S.S. Indianapolis sank leaving 900 floating in the water with only 317 surviving. The estimated killed directly by sharks ranges between 36-150 sailors.