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[TIL] That the bar at the back of semis that keeps you from going under is called a Mansfield bar after the actress who died in a crash with a semi

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oNxo TIL during the height of the Cold War the “missile gap” was highly exagerated; the Soviets may have only had 4 ICBM’s
8jDa TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.
NXEyb TIL The Wiggles iconic Wiggle Fingers was created as a safe way for people to know where their hands are when interacting with children
x4K5 TIL that whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose
OGQAY TIL Celine Dion’s song It’s All Coming Back To Me Now was originally performed by a group called Pandora’s Box. They only had one album, and included vocals by the actress who played public defender Billie Young in Night Court.