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TIL You are “overdriving your headlights” when you go so fast that your stopping distance is farther than you can see with your headlights.

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l78KN TIL: There are parts of the ocean with no tides which are called amphidromic points, some even directly border land.
GAgQ4 TIL Shaquille O’Neal is a dubstep dj that goes by the name DJ Diesel
OG6yY TIL that in 1985, a Yugoslavian farmer had a bottle inserted in his anus which broke and blamed it on two men of a minority group which gaine widespread coverage. Despite later testimony revealing that the wound was self-inflicted, the incident played a role in the future breakup of Yugoslavia.
d8a8B TIL As far back as 20,000 BCE, 8,000 years before the Clovis culture migrated south into North America, there was an already established civilization in Chile at Monte Verde.
ROP7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson, his father, and his grandfather all died of heart failure at the age of 64.