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TIL that the the first vacuum cleaner was horse-drawn.
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TIL Brad Fiedel, who wrote the theme for The Terminator, said that the much disputed/odd time signature (13/8 or 12/8) present in the song was due to a timing error in the synths and sequencer loops which were synced by hand.
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TIL that Mercedes SLS guillwing doors are rigged with explosives that will detonate upon rollover detection - allowing passengers to escape the car after an accident
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TIL Spreuerhofstraße is, according to Guinness World Records, the world's narrowest street, found in the city of Reutlingen, Germany. It ranges from 31 centimetres (12.2 in) at its narrowest to 50 centimetres (19.7 in) at its widest
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TIL Some cultures speak in geographic, not egocentric terms, giving them superhuman orientation. Instead of asking you to “shift left” a little bit, they would request you “slide a little to the east” (or whatever the applicable direction was)
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TIL Half-Life 2 has a burnt corpse model textured using photos of a real dead and badly burnt body