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TIL Legalizing direct-to-consumer car sales would reduce the average price by over $3000

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VMEv4 TIL homeowners associations (HOAs) have their roots in Jim Crow-era policies, originally organized to impart restrictions on who moved into their neighborhoods along mostly racial lines.
9EVp TIL that the “pool smell” is not chlorine, but chloramines, which are created with the combination of chlorine and human sweat, oil, or urine.
DLOJ TIL that in WWI even though the officers knew that at 11 am there was a cease fire areement, they kept on sending troops into no-mans land and shelling the enemy lines, right up to 10:59 am. About 2,000 people died with only hours left of fighting.
bZDp TIL that the opposite of Anorexia is called Bigorexia, a disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with the idea that they are not muscular enough.
pY7NO TIL about Leon Whiteley, a 26-year-old British man who cycled eastward from Portugal to China. 176 days in, at a teahouse in Kazakhstan, he met Noel Kegel -- an 27-year-old American man who was making a similar journey west