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TIL that cops touch the back of your vehicle to make sure the trunk isn’t open, and to leave their fingerprints on your vehicle in case they are taken hostage/murdered

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DMep TIL that Turkey violated Greek airspace no less than 2244 times in 2014
W16d TIL In Switzerland, Rabies has been virtually eradicated after scientists placed chicken heads laced with a vaccine in the Swiss Alps. The foxes of Switzerland, proven to be the main source of rabies in the country, ate the chicken heads and immunized themselves.
4YGa TIL that on April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine, his response was “Well, the people, I would say… There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
P15AG TIL that the current “land speed record” - the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land - is 763 mph. It was achieved in 1997 by Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green and has not been beaten since.
KOJ6G TIL that one of the largest mammals to ever exist was an elephant-sized ground sloth