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TIL Drowsy driving is as dangerous as Drunk driving.

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5VYLQ TIL The space probe Voyager 2 looses about 4 watts of power annually due to natural decay of its nuclear fuel.
N0K8 TIL that the full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once a day and once a night for a period of only three weeks once a year, resulting in a continues, 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
8oj8 TIL the Cali Cartel murdered so many people and dumped their bodies in the Cauca River that the local municipality was eventually bankrupt by the cost of recovering corpses and conducting autopsies.
eR9g TIL Four months after approving the merger of Comcast and NBC in 2011, Meredith Attwell Baker, the FCC commissioner who approved the deal, was hired as a lobbyist by Comcast.
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