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TIL virtually every delivery app driver in North America is uninsured and could lose everything if they get in an accident while working

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78AVZ TIL That the Pink Panther cartoon show was created due to the success of the character in the opening credits of the Pink Panther films
5VrRp TIL that perhaps counterintuitively, defibrillators do not shock the heart to get it to beat normally- the shock actually stops the heart from beating altogether. This allows the natural automatic pacemaker of the heart to operate again and restore the heart's rhythm back to normal.
Bg7be TIL the writers of Predator got the idea from a joke following Rocky IV, that since Rocky had run out of earthly opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth film were to be made.
xVZ1D TIL that the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata is the longest poem ever written with 200,000 verses and 1.8 million words. It was orally transmitted for centuries before being written down 2500 years ago.
6mEw TIL in 1993, The Barbie Liberation Organization challenged gender stereotypes by switching the voice boxes of hundreds of Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and ‘reverse shoplifting’ them back into stores. Barbies would yell, “Eat lead, Cobra!” while G.I. Joes would ask, “Want to go shopping?”.