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698JJ TIL IIHS researchers estimated that about 900 fatal crashes (727 involving pedestrians and 174 involving vehicle occupants) could have been avoided during 1987-91 if daylight saving time had been in effect throughout the year
d8mlQ TIL "A fake U.S. Embassy operated in Ghana for about a decade, issuing false visas and other documents until it was discovered in 2016."
LGmQ TIL Ed Smith created a fake student called George Burdell when Georgia Tech sent him two enrolment forms by mistake. He signed Burdell up for all his classes and did all his work twice with minor changes so teachers wouldn’t catch him. The school awarded Burdell a bachelor’s and a master’s degree.
1pkd TIL McDonalds doesn’t sell hot dogs because, according to founder Ray Kroc, “there’s no telling what’s inside a hot dog’s skin, and our standard of quality just wouldn’t permit that kind of item.”
lovJN TIL That in 1962, a US spy plane pilot wandered off course and penetrated Soviet airspace, where he avoided intercept by Soviet MiGs, ran out of gas and glided back to Alaska. And oh -- this was right in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis.