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TIL Not Using Turn Signals Causes More Accidents than Distracted Driving

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0O0M TIL that when Lawrence Anthony, an international conservationist famously known as the ‘Elephant Whisperer’, died, some of the elephants he worked to save came to his family’s home in accordance with the way elephants usually mourn the death of one of their own.
j6oBv TIL: Rum is subsidized by US taxes
9Wvm TIL in 2013 a 27yo Psychology Student, who had already published articles in medical journals, died of a drug overdose while celebrating her new job - working as a drug counselor
LkQdP TIL Security company Cloudflare uses a camera pointed at a wall of 100 lava lamps to generate the random numbers used to encrypt approximately 10% of all internet traffic
e0Q6J TIL that Quentin Tarantino wants to quit directing around the age of 60 because he doesn't "want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies who doesn’t know when to leave the party." He is now 57.