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TIL seat belts don’t make school buses safer, and may not be worth the added cost, according to NHTSA

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OAPX TIL the Vatican added 7,000 LEDs to illuminate Michelangelo’s 6,000-square-foot Sistine Chapel ceiling painting. Thanks to this intervention, the work is now more visible to visitors than it has ever been in its 500-year history, including the years in which it was lit by daylight.
1ark7 TIL that Allied soldiers summarily executed guards at Dachau after discovering the concentration camp. Estimates vary as to how many but range between 35 and 50.
looY5 TIL that during his 2004 tour, David Bowie was stalked by someone in a pink rabbit suit; Bowie shrugged it off: "I thought, 'Hey, it's rock'n'roll. It's just a 5ft 3in bunny.'"
DJYV TIL there’s an annual “Bowie vs. Prince” bike ride in Portland that’s been going on since 2008.
rRoBw TIL of Sonya Golden Hand, a Russian female con artist who committed several carefully planned robberies and stole tens of thousands of rubles. She was eventually captured and exiled to a penal colony. She was moved into solitary confinement after trying to escape the colony dressed as a guard.