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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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VBGDm TIL Dragon Kings were mythical beings from China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam that controlled the rain from their underwater crystal palaces. Although they commanded legions of sea creatures as servants and soldiers, they were not all-powerful and still answered to the gods
ePMD TIL that the plans for turning Russia into a parliamentary democracy were completed one day before Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. He was supposed to present these to the Russian people in the next 48 hours. The first action of his more conservative son was to tear up those plans.
Oo6va TIL A day before she was to guest star on Hill Street Blues (1981), Dominique Dunne was badly beaten by her boyfriend. She showed up on the set with bruises on her face with no makeup; since she was playing an abused teen in the episode. The bruises we see in the episode are real.
wamW TIL Nicotine is unusual compared to most drugs, as its profile changes from stimulant to sedative with increasing doses, a phenomenon known as “Nesbitt’s paradox”
RNG9 TIL there is a lake in Australia called Lake Disappointment that is normally dry.