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TIL Buses don’t need seat belts because of an effect called compartmentalization. Combined with riding higher than most cars, it’s actually one of the safest forms of traveling.

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D1gED TIL: About “Garden Path Sentences”, a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Like “The old man the boat”
gMaL TIL Lily Allen supported the British government in targeting file sharers violating copyright laws and there was a backlash because it was found that she plagiarized in her blog supporting it, making her a hypocrite
6E1RY TIL the origin of Backslash in MS Windows. Unix introduced in '70 the forward slash as its directory separator. In '81 MS-DOS 1.0 didn’t support directories at all and already were using "/" as switch operator, hence the DOS 2 had to chose the "\" as the only viable to keep compatibility.
W7pOB Today I learned about Mexican Texans called tejanos that served in the civil war.
wLrBM TIL Cows can cough and it can be a symptom of longworm, bovine tuberculosis or many others