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TIL the word "dashboard" actually derives from a wooden or leather board attached to the front of a horse-drawn carriage to protect the driver from mud splashes thrown up or "dashed' by the horse's hooves.

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166KV TIL of Claudine Longet, a Franco-American entertainer who shot and killed her boyfriend, Olympic skier Spider Sabich, in Aspen Colorado in 1976. She was originally charged with murder but was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to only 30 days in jail which she served on weekends.
5YwdP TIL that in 1920, U.S. Mint employee Orville Harrington stole an estimated $80,000 in gold by methodically hiding the bars in his hollow wooden leg.
QNyp9 TIL that in 1984, 6,600 tons of radioactive rebar were distributed throughout Mexico and the U.S. after a radiation therapy unit was sent to a junkyard in Juárez, Mexico and converted into scrap metal. 814 irradiated buildings were ultimately demolished and 4,000 people were exposed.
6EoEW TIL The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones and connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
0WEM TIL Dr Anna Wilkinson spent six months training a tortoise to yawn to discover whether yawning was contagious in the species. It was not and her conclusion was “a negative result is still exciting”.