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TIL that the current T6 generation Ford Ranger was actually developed by Ford Australia 🇦🇺

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Xgpj TIL A new bridge from Canada to the US is expected to become one of the largest international crossings in the world, but it almost wasn’t built because post-recession Michigan couldn’t afford it. Canada decided to pay for the bridge, land acquisition, and construction on both sides of the border.
QJNJp TIL John Gotti had his neighbors body dissolved in a 55 gallon drum of acid for accidentally running over and killing Gottis 12 year old son.
78JQL TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was not supposed to wear jheri curls in “Pulp Fictions”. He was going to wear an afro, but that wig was brought to the set by mistake.
Z99a TIL that the author of Hatchet, Gary Paulsen, has seen shark attacks, saw his mother beat a potential molester to death in front of him, learned to shoot as a child on a naval boat, has competed in the Iditarod and a bunch of other insane stuff…
NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”