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TIL the first mass produced electric car called "Enfield 8000" was made in a small island called Ermoupolis, Syros in Greece in 1973 by a Greek millionaire shipowener called Giannis Goulandris

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ZpMRG TIL that the oldest Norman castle in England pre-dates the Norman conquest by ~15 years. It was built by a Norman knight named Richard Scrob, granted lands near the Welsh border by Edward the Confessor, though only earthworks survive today
newVo TIL of Operation London Bridge, a detailed plan for what is to happen in the days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The plan is updated several times yearly and was devised in the 1960s.
ne1B9 TIL Rotting potatoes give off a noxious gas that can knock a person unconscious & even cause death.
yQv4l TIL in 1981 the US claimed Vietnam had used chemical weapons on it's own people, saying over ten thousand had died from what was described as 'yellow rain'. The 'yellow rain' was analyzed and found to be harmless bee feces.
9w6pQ TIL that Albert I, King of the Belgians (b. 1875, r. 1909-1934) commanded the Belgian Army from the front during WWI, while his wife Elisabeth worked as a frontline nurse and their 12 year old son Leopold enlisted as a private and fought in the ranks