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TIL Drowsy driving is as dangerous as Drunk driving.

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DloV TIL of Lake Disappointment, Western Australia. So named because the explorer who discovered it followed creeks inland expecting to find a large lake, only to be disappointed when it turned out to be a large salt flat.
6E58Q TIL When a Dominos customer regular didn’t place an order after 2 weeks the store employees went to check on him and found he was in need to urgent medical attention. It most likely saved his life
AmQg TIL the term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet when being edited in the early days of film making.
VMYL8 TIL that Hungary removed many of the statues and monuments celebrating communism and moved them to an outdoor museum built so that the past would be saved, but not celebrated.
wLPOJ TIL the phrase "no strings attached” is directly tied to 18th century fabric merchants who would mark flaws in woven cloth by tying small strings to the bottom of the bolts at the locations where flaws were present.