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TIL that tennis and basketball courts sometimes develop "dead spots" where the ball doesn't bounce

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GYPA5 TIL A SYNANAGRAM is a word whose letters can be rearranged to form a different word with the same meaning—like ‘angered’ and ‘enraged’. ‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two.’ and both add up to 13!
lprA TIL So few Lamborghinis were ordered with a manual transmission that whenever someone did, the factory just assumed it was an error and made sure it was double-checked
1aaDO TIL of famous con man Steve Comisar discussing romance with fraudster Etta Lucero on DatelineNBC.
ANR0d TIL most plastics are more expensive than gasoline by weight . The average consumer only thinks gas is expensive compared to plastic because they buy more gas than plastic.
D1rvP TIL that children from dog-owning households have been shown to display fewer conduct problems, peer problems and fewer total difficulties, while also showing more prosocial behavior compared to children without a dog in the home.