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TIL car speedometers often become "frozen" following a heavy accident. The last reading can indicate the speed at impact, but is usually incorrect. This is not a feature - speedometers were not designed to jam after an accident.

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M7gYa TIL that jazz musicians shut off their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, responsible for self-monitoring performance, and activate their medial prefrontal cortex, which helps with storytelling. This resembles our brain patterns while dreaming.
W7RMA TIL in the aftermath of the 1912 Regina Cyclone, where a tornado touched down in Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28 people, a touring theatrical troupe who'd stopped there helped rebuild after the event, one of whom was a young actor named Boris Karloff.
4XdRb TIL that the man that was not saluting to Hitler in the famous photograph was August Landmesser. After imprisonment, a failed attempt of fleeing to Denmark with his family, his Jewish wife dying in the Holocaust, he was drafted into a penal battalion where he was killed in action.
wWr6 TIL Tara Strong, voice actress on Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, Teen Titans, Hello Kitty, Ultimate Spider Man, Princess Mononoke, and many more, was given a visa into the US as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability.”
woM1M TIL that France did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it still refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds".