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TIL Police lights flash in such a way that your eyes/brain can never “get used to them”, so they’ll always be noticeable and catch your attention.

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dYLZ TIL Walmart paid employees of “Walmart de Mexico” in company scrip vouchers usable only at Walmart stores until a court ruling in 2008.
Xgd6 TIL that according to John Deere farmers don’t own the tractors but merely have “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle” and claims it is illegal to access to the diagnostic software because someone might pirate music from the system.
R7gpa TIL in 1981, a 27 year old James Cameron was working as a director on Pirhana II, when he was fired for failing to get a close-up of the lead actress. He then got food poisoning and during his illness had a nightmare about a robot sent from the future to kill him - the idea for The Terminator
yQ8ww TIL the sunset on Mars is blue instead of red like planet Earth.
VowB TIL due to the always uncertain future of Futurama, there has been three designated series finales.