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TIL Uber Hasn't Had An Effect On Drunken-Driving Deaths

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E1a1x TIL: Inspired by the "Hot Crazy Matrix", evolutionary psychologist Alyson Blanchard conducted studies on over 500 people and found that when men are confronted with women of similar physical attractiveness, they go for the one with borderline personality disorders or psychopathic traits.
VwGB TIL A tortoise, Adwaita, lived to 255. To put it into perspective, he was born before the US existed and his death was announced on CNN. (1750-2006)
vaQ4 TIL King George V’s physician gave the dying king a lethal dosage of morphine and cocaine to hasten his death so that it could be announced in the morning edition of The Times rather than “less appropriate evening journals”
VM7gZ TIL A Marking Harness, a sponge of chalk or crayon worn on a Ram's chest, is used to tell which sheep a ram has mounted. (Some sheep end up looking polka dotted.)
VMrVD TIL the Washington monument was constructed in 2 phases separated by over 2 decades, due to funding issues. The stones used in the 2nd phase was different from the one used earlier. Though they looked similar then, the stones have aged differently and the difference is clearly visible now.