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TIL that your child’s school bus has no seat belts, because it’s about 40 times safer than the family car. School buses weigh in much heavier, and their passengers sit much higher, making them safer in collisions.

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VMKlD TIL Mark Whalberg served 45 days for attempted murder after beating a middle-aged Vietnamese man unconscious while calling him "Vietnamese f*king sht"
b9dDa TIL that Cheez-It's are not actually square, measuring 1.0 by 0.94 inches, making them rectangles.
EeBW TIL of Timothy Dexter, who faked his own death to see how people would react. 3,000 people attended his fake Wake. After he deemed his wife hadn’t cried and grieved hard enough, he caned her.
Dn1Y TIL that in 2006 Lance Corporal William Windsor of the British 1st Infantry Battalion was demoted for “disobeying a direct order.” He was reinstated 3 months later after animal rights groups complained. William Windsor is a goat.
78eP7 TIL sucking on your SO's (F) nipples can cause irregularities in periods and is also a method of (extremely unreliable) contraception. Sucking on the nipple releases the hormone prolactin, which causes the brain/body to think there is already an suckling infant and will try to delay the next.