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TIL Tesla is a company that makes electric cars.

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XEP58 TIL Thomas Edison was almost killed by a badger which struck a train whilst he was travelling on its cowcatcher on his way to Wyoming for an eclipse.
v18NK TIL that Milestii Mici is the biggest wine cellar in the world with a length of 200 kilometers. It is so big that to help visitors to not get lost, the tunnels have names like cities' names.
K9Vw TIL that discredited South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed to have extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos was, unbeknownst to himself at the time, actually the first to produce human embryos via parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction.
WERX TIL there’s an “endless wave” in the Amazon that can be surfed for ten kilometers or more.
BgJLb TIL Paektu mountain on the border of North Korea and China still holds near mystical reverence in the former communist country and is quoted as the birth place of Kim Jong Il while also being the source of 3 rivers including two that for the North Korean/Chinese border.