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TIL of Benford's Law, which states that almost 50% of numbers in real-life datasets start with 1 or 2. This can be used to detect tax fraud.

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6EKVw TIL about Corn Smut, a plant disease that is considered a delicacy.
Y7aNP TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket)
V7Z8 TIL the inventor of the floppy disk, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, would nearly drown himself to death in order to come up with ideas, believing the lack of oxygen would help him think creatively.
Eg0R0 TIL the last time pop-up headlamps appeared on a volume-production car was in 2004, when both the Lotus Esprit and Chevrolet Corvette (C5) ended production.
e0Ky6 Yes. Shaved legs worth about 70 sec over 40km.