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TIL 18% of people in a high speed chase get away from police in Los Angelos

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ANQxB TIL that there is a fudge factory in a town called Uranus in Missouri
Z8ONR TIL that Dory from "Finding Nemo" is deemed one of the most neuropsychologically accurate movie portrayals of an amnesic syndrome and the considerable memory difficulties faced daily by people with it
6E10X TIL about Risus sardonicus, a spasm of your facial muscles that make you look like you have a devious grin
XlRj TIL that human races do not exist taxonomically. A fixation index of 0.25 is required for a species to have various sub-species. Humans have a fixation index of 0.11, less than half of the required criteria of genetic diversity needed for the existence of sub-species or races.
j6o7R TIL about the Alipore Central Jail, a prison in Kolkata, India where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It is no longer operational as a jail. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed here.