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TIL a child is 16 times safer riding to school in a school bus than in a family vehicle

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NXrP6 TIL that flying fish escape underwater predators by launching themselves through the air and gliding for hundreds of meters. However, if they fly too high, they encounter another predator in the air: frigatebirds.
44PR TIL that there’s an underground city beneath Beijing that covers 85 square kilometres. Built in the 70s in preparation for nuclear war it’s described as being “dark, damp, and genuinely eerie”
gQx4 TIL that the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola stayed at a nickel for over 70 years. As a result, vending machines only took nickels, and before raising prices to a dime the president of the company asked President Eisenhower to mint 7.5 cent coins to keep the increase reasonable.
RKN7 TIL Google searches for ‘Tinder’ peak at 12.30am, 'porn’ at 1.30am and 'lonely’ at 2.30am
5jYn TIL that driving while drunk destroyed the Soviet spy network in the UK. After being arrested in London in 1971, Oleg Lyalin panicked and offered the names of every Russian spy. The UK government expelled 105 people from the country, and the USSR network in Britain “never recovered”.