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Leyd TIL that Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1953 that set the first self-driving cars to be released around 2015
vmx7 TIL the Nazi ideology of aggressive land expansion (Lebensraum) was partly based on the idea of American Manifest Destiny.
77kb TIL that during the first artificial insemination, a woman was chloroformed in front of six medical students and the “most attractive” student gave his semen. The woman was not told that her husband wasn’t the father until the child was 25, and the medical student published an article.
nLkY TIL that Norway has something called ‘folkehøyskole’ aka 'people’s college’ where you pay $70,000 a year to live on the school’s property, go to classes of your choice of no academic value, have no exams and take trips to different locations through the year.It’s basically a year-long summercamp.
D1MvD TIL the Seoul Subway has heated seats