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TIL it is legal to drive a motorcycle between moving cars ("lane splitting") in California

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YkeA TIL there is a culture deemed unstudiable by some anthropologists for leading such uninteresting and mundane lives, focused upon work, frowning upon sex and play and without spiritual or political leaders.
rop4 TIL the King of Thailand’s first name is Vajiralongkorn Barommachakkrayadisonsantatiwongse Deveshrathamrongsubariban Abhikhunuprakarnmahittaladuladej Bhumibholnaresvarangkura Kittisirisomburana Savangavadhana Barommakhattiyarajakumara
lovpB TIL of the slow movement, which advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace, and "doing everything as well as possible, instead of as fast as possible." It began with a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome in 1986. "It’s about quality over quantity in everything."
VMpBm TIL of Joseph Paul Jernigan, a murderer who agreed to donate his body to science prior to his execution in 1993. Jernigan’s body was encased, frozen, and cut into 1,851 slices. Images of those cuts are now used by medical students and radiologists as a human anatomy correlate for CT and MRI images.
VBwP4 TIL that the construction the Three Gorges Dam in China displaced enough water to lengthen the earth's day by 0.06 μs.