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TIL Shenzhen police force drivers who illegally use high beams to stare into their blinding lights for 1 minute.

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DQEXe TIL The same person was the voice for Miss Piggy, Yoda, Cookie Monster, Grover, Fozzie Bear, and Bert!
KOKlQ TIL about Carbon Chauvinism, a term coined by Carl Sagan which assumes that all extraterrestrial life must be made of carbon because carbon-based humans are unable to imagine life made of radically different biochemistries.
R5089 TIL the only fatalities of WW2 in the continental US were from balloons. The Fu-Go balloon bomb is considered the first intercontinental weapon system.
EgDXx TIL female worms shrivel and die after giving birth due to the presence of male sperm and seminal fluid
0dJn1 TIL it was Ben Sliney’s first day as FAA’s National Operations Manager when he ordered the National Ground Stop on Sept. 11, 2001.