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TIL that American car seats are illegal to use in most of the rest of the world due to the addition of the chest clip

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Ypewv TIL that some people can voluntarily cause a rumbling sound in their ears by tensing the tensor tympani muscle.
1QV8 TIL that when Uwe Boll tried to obtain filming rights for a World of Warcraft movie Blizzard said “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you.”
KZyB TIL The largest ransom ever paid to a single individual was to the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, by the Inca Empire before their leader, Atahualpa, the victim, was executed in 1532. The ransom payment of a “roomful of gold” was probably over $2 billion in today’s economic markets.
xVE45 TIL that for every bird killed by a wind turbine, coal kills over 2,000
JE4V TIL that, after surviving a year-long experiment on an isolated island for a British reality TV show, ten contestants learned that the show had been canceled 4 months into production.