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TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)

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YpoP TIL that several airlines who aired the movie “Rain Man” deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents, except for Quantas, who even promoted one of the movie’s writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline.
pX7Z TIL that female dragonflies will fake their own death just to avoid mating.
noGb TIL Renaissance women would make home made lotions to rid themselves of body hair. Ingredients included arsenic and cat dung.
V90G TIL some dog breeds experience “snow nose,” a phenomenon that causes dogs to lose pigmentation in their nose during winter due to lack of sunlight. It usually returns to black during summer.
p8nGp TIL 14 squirrels were arrested by Iranian authorities for espionage. Officials said they succeeded in apprehending the suspects "before they were able to take any action".