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TIL that Avalanche Airbags exist, and they’re used when people fall into an avalanche. They help people survive by “making them bigger” and so staying closer to the surface by the principle of inverse segregation

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PGZ TIL Immortal Technique donated all the money he made on his last album to build an orphanage in Afghanistan.
VBXQ4 TIL Ancient Greeks referred to Subsaharan Africans as Aethiopians, meaning “burnt-face people”. Aethiopia referred to all of the inhabited land found to the south of Egypt. The Greek historian Herodotus stated, “the men are taller, handsomer, and longer lived than anywhere else.”
LkGP9 TIL that in 2008 suspected serial murderer Ricky Simonds was found dead of heat stroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriends car. Investigators on the case believe Simonds was waiting in the trunk to ambush and murder his ex-girlfriend, when he became locked in the vehicle.
j4Lp TIL that in 2012, the founder of McAfee antivirus, John McAfee was asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus, he replied by saying “I take it off,” and that “It’s too annoying.”
wLpaM TIL tattoos and body art were illegal in the state of Massachusetts until the year 2000, considering it a "crime against the person".