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TIL That in South Dakota there is an annual motorcycle rally that averages almost 10 deaths, 400 arrests, 300 emergency room visits, and tens of millions in revenue for local government.

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YpjZx TIL Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize winner for Literature got death threats for writing her magnum opus, 'The Books of Jacob'
rRkO0 TIL that the Fabii, one of ancient Rome's most prestigious families, was nearly wiped out in one battle where 306 male members of the family died. The sole survivor of the family had been too young to go to war.
P1pVV TIL The first product scanned with a bar code scanner was a packet of Wrigley's chewing gum. it happened on Marsh Supermarket, Ohio.
ZpmKB TIL that the reason mint tastes cold is that menthol activates a protein called TRPM8 in your nerve cells that normally respond to cold. It is the only food that does do. (Although capsaicin, similarly, activates a different protein, VR1, that senses heat.)
J1M0B TIL that the modern assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by Ransom E. Olds. Ford then took the idea and improved it.