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TIL Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) has a 4 octave vocal range

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OoVvg Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the time it can take for a young child trapped in a car to suffer fatal injuries.
9wRQB TIL Ferdinand Magellan did not actually circumnavigate the globe. He was killed in the Philippines before he could finish the journey, and the expedition which started with 270 sailors was completed by his surviving crew of just 18 or 19 men led by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
PYpEJ TIL Einstein failing a math exam is a myth. He failed the entrance exam to Zurich Polytechnic because he did poorly on botany, zoology and language sections.
8eWAK TIL Nicholas McKay invented the lint roller after needing masking tape, a paper roll, and some wire to clean his suit before chaperoning his son's high school dance in 1956.
eMlk TIL that it’s technically twice as dangerous to be a taxi driver, than to be a cop. Even in terms of homicide.