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TIL when the Autocar car magazine was founded in 1895, there were only six or seven cars on the roads of the UK, its home country.

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awKwL TIL in Germany you can’t be prosecuted if you help a close family member to hide the body of someone they murdered. The state regards the inseverability of family as a greater good than its own desire to prosecute crime.
N78J TIL that Top Gun was such an effective advertisement for the Navy that the Navy had recruitment booths right there in theaters.
X0XDk TIL Low-background steel is steel produced prior to the detonation of the nuclear bombs. Typically sourced from old shipwrecks, it is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout
4kM9X TIL that once when helping an Alaska Native whale hunter harvest whale blubber, a biologist found a harpoon tip in the blubber that was about 100 years old.
GApDj TIL following the US entry into WWI in 1917, a wave of anti-German sentiment swept across the nation. This sentiment manifested in acts of aggression towards Dachshund dogs, with disturbing reports emerging of some being targeted and even killed by enraged mobs.