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TIL the UK has used ‘incident screens’ to block the view of traffic accidents, etc. on the highway, in an attempt to reduce rubbernecking delays.

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e0xkE TIL IKEA is serving food because they realized that customers don’t buy and don’t stay for long when being hungry. Their policy is to be the absolute lowest price on food within a 30-mile radius, even if it means selling at a loss. So, they take a hit on the food, but they make it up in furniture
GAX81 TIL that Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel, which translates as such: ‘I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).’
Y7gWr TIL that NBC series 'Friends' was inspired by the film 'Singles' directed by Cameron Crowe.
WX6o TIL that the CIA suspected the KGB of stealing pipeline software, so they allegedly created a “logic bomb” which resulted in the explosion of a Russian natural gas pipeline equal to 3 kilotons of TNT.
Eg6L7 TIL Many of the dinosaurs featured in Jurassic Park, such as Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex, did not evolve until after the Jurassic Period was over