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TIL Lego is the largest manufacturer of tires in the world

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MeBE8 TIL in 2018, almost half of all fatalities from vehicle crashes were not wearing a seatbelt, 29% were driving impaired, and 27% were speeding related.
M5WW TIL When hot water freezes faster than cold water, the effect is called “the Mpemba Effect”. It’s named after Tanzanian Erasto Mpemba who was originally ridiculed for bringing it up in class after noticing his warmer ice cream mix was freezing before the cooler batch
9Y0o7 TIL during WW2, a fake town was built to disguise the Boeing plant that was building B17 bombers.
oD58 TIL that a small, single story building at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, DE is the registered home of over 6,500 corporations and 200,000 businesses, such as Google, American Airlines, Apple, GM, Coca-Cola, KFC, Verizon Internet Services, and Deutsche Bank
edaJ TIL that Jupiter’s moon Europa likely has more water on it than Earth.