What I learned in an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office today.
Went in to get my new truck tags for the ancient hunk of junk that occasionally gets me from point A to B, and, being bored, started watching this video screen that they had that kept cycling through odd facts. Learned that human saliva boils at 3 times higher temps than regular water, that 8000 people in the US are injured by musical instruments every year, and that Bernie Sanders followers had been banned from Tinder for campaigning on the platform and that Hillary and Bill Clinton had made $153 million since 2000 or so giving speeches.
Those last two struck me as oddly political choices of 'random facts' to be showing in a BMV. I also noticed there were no similar 'facts' about any of the Republican candidates in the cycle that kept repeating on the screen.
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We get bombarded by these brainwashing factoids on a daily basis. Greetings from a fellow Buckeye...
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