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TIL If you have a fear of bridges, you can hire a service where someone gets behind the wheel of your car and drives you across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a 4.3-mile stretch in Maryland known as one of the scariest bridges in the world.

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OyRL TIL that up to 1,500 baby raccoons were imported to Japan per year as pets during the 70’s due to the anime “Rascal Raccoon"s popularity. The descendants have multiplied after being released following a similar scene in the show. The population is now in the 200,000s and is a major destructive pest.
NXxOQ TIL that Chindōgu is the practice of inventing gadgets which serve a purpose but are impractical or silly. A term coined by Kenji Kawakami with some early Chindōgu including a toilet roll dispenser you wear on your head for hay fever sufferers and glasses with inbuilt funnels for eyedrop application
wr96 TIL in 1973, a nurse in India was reduced to vegetative state after she was choked with a “Dog Chain and sodomized” by the hospital’s sweeper. The convict served 14 yrs sentence, while she still continues to be in the same state after 42yr. Supreme Court declined plea for euthanasia by an activist
ADB1x TIL that there is actually 2 distinct species of Red Panda meaning it is no longer considered the only species in its genus.
vPO0D TIL Critical Periods: Periods of time where an organism's brain is extremely malleable and sensitive to stimuli. If the organism doesn't receive the appropriate stimulus during this critical period to learn a given skill- it maybe difficult or even impossible to develop certain associated functions