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TIL Tesla is a company that makes electric cars.

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nA1b TIL a 21 year old college student, Maura Murray, mysteriously vanished in Feb 2004 after she wrecked and abandoned her car in the New Hampshire White Mountain area. Only 3 minutes passed between being last seen and an office arriving to find she was gone. She has never been found or heard from since
KOVGR TIL prior to the 92 Olympics several members of Australia’s Olympic basketball team threatened to boycott out of fears of contracting HIV from Magic Johnson. Australia basketball’s medical director Dr. Brian Sando recommended the Australians don’t play.
87oL TIL the first and the last British soldiers to die in WWI are coincidentally buried only 15 feet apart. In the 4 year period between their deaths, nearly a million other British/Commonwealth troops died.
XY4R TIL New York City rioted for over a week in 1922 over when it was socially acceptable to wear a straw hat, similar incidents led to a man being killed in 1924
ALrl TIL of a man who survived a shipwreck in 1628 and transformed into a murderous dictator over the remaining survivors. He and his henchmen killed over 100 men, women and children over a 2 month period while stranded. Ultimately he was overcome by a group loyal to the ship’s captain and was executed.