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TIL Roughly 10% of all motor vehicle accidents are lane change accidents, leading to 60,000 injuries per year

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grPW4 TIL that if Churchill had been incapacitated during the Second World War, one plan was to replace him as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.
QNWrE TIL Slaves in ancient Rome would often sleep on the same bedroom as their masters, or right outside. The lack of privacy was such that Romans would joke about slaves having their ears glued to the door and masturbating to their masters having sex
6EG68 TIL of the Aeroflot Flight 6502 incident of 1986 in which a Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land the aeroplane blind. He crashed the plane, killing 70 out of 94 passengers and crew.
OWaL TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) updated his alumni information at Harvard in 2012: he called his eight life sentences “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner”
oBw0W TIL Japanese macaques or snow monkeys get their name because they live in the more snowy areas of Japan. Snow monkeys are the most northerly-living primates, other than humans, and they are known to congregate around thermal springs (onsen) in winter. They also enjoy rolling snowballs for fun.