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TIL Iowa had a professional NBA team in 1950

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7rYYX TIL During the Cold War, the US tested its ejector seats out on bears.
9wJZG TIL Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is an altered mental state in which a person can drive a car, truck, or other automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected, safe, and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.
Z8GmB TIL that with 168,151 people per square km, the Lalbagh Thana neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, is most densely populated administrative subdivision in the world (~6.2x denser than Manhattan!)
ypmX TIL Antarctica has a emergency phone number: 911. It Calls the nearest island/country that has a Police / Emergency system.
OoZw7 TIL BBC journalists requested an interview with Facebook because they weren't removing child abuse photos. Facebook asked to be sent the photos as proof. When journalists sent the photos, Facebook reported the them to the police because distributing child abuse imagery is illegal.