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TIL American Home Ownership is the Lowest Since 1967.

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oRvGY TIL - in 1995, Renault installed their 800+HP, V-10 Formula 1 engine into their Espace minivan, sold in Europe. They had F1 champ Alain Prost test drive it around a race track.
GN61 TIL that freeze-dried ice cream only made one mission to space. In 1968 it had it’s first and only use in space during the Apollo 7 mission.
VBYd4 TIL:Masturbating can increase your life span.
yOLa TIL most of the “facts” about Nostradamus are false, his astrologies were false with lots of errors, he did not predict his own death correctly as it was his secretary who edited it after his death, etc.
Vpg4 TIL Henry Ford created a car made almost entirely out of plastic. It weighed 30% less than standard cars, could withstand 10 times the damage and ran on ethanol instead of gas. The design never caught on.