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TIL the auto body shop used by the show “Pimp My Ride” was fined $16,000 by federal regulators for removing the airbag in a car’s steering wheel and installing a tv screen

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0NZ1 TIL that Bruce Lee was so fast that the fight scenes in his movies had to be slowed down to see.
R5D87 TIL that facial recognition on an iPhone probably doesn’t work on dead people.
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wba6 TIL: Alaska’s oil tax credit program will pay more in corporate subsidies to small oil and gas companies than the state is forecast to collect in total oil production taxes.