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TIL, if you’re like most drivers, you have your mirrors adjusted unsafely. They should be adjusted far outside so that you can’t see your car at all to get rid of “BLIND” spots.

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ANbEn TIL that at Woodstock festival in 1969, Jimi Hendrix performed on the very last day to an audience of fewer than 50,000 people, as of the monumental crowd of 500,000 attendees present when the festival started three days before, vast majority has already left
mByY TIL of “Fan Death”, a well known myth in South Korean culture, that running an electric fan in a closed room with unopened or no windows can lead to death. Despite no concrete evidence to support the concept, fan death persists due to its popularity as an urban myth or superstition.
aw7yZ TIL that over 90% of the ocean's plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers, 8 of which are in Asia, and 2 of which are in Africa.
VBW80 TIL Bolivia and Venezuela (as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) are named after Simón Bolívar
7rVML TIL astronaut Gordon Cooper compiled a secret map containing the locations of 'hundreds' of shipwrecks which he uncovered from space whilst searching for magnetic anomalies during the Mercury 9 Faith 7 expedition