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TIL that 26.82 million air tickets as well as 5.96 million high-speed rail tickets have been denied to chinese people whom were deemed untrustworthy, because of a bad social credit score.

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gMnjX TIL when the 1957 Lotus Seven was introduced, it came as a self-assembly kit to avoid car taxation of the day. As the tax rebate didn't apply to kits that came with an assembly manual, Lotus bundled theirs with a disassembly manual that was supposed to be followed in reverse.
0Xry TIL that the city of Seattle generates 90% of its electricity from water (and almost all the rest from nuclear and wind)
oBV1A TIL Charles Morgan, an escrow agent working for the FBI and 2 big crime groups, was found shot in the back of the head. He had on a bullet proof vest, had a map to the location his body was found, had his tooth in his pocket & a bill with a bible reference. It was ruled suicide.
gM4gy TIL of Hurrem Sultana aka Roxelana. She was captured during a slave raid by the Crimean Tatars & taken to the harem of the Ottoman Empire. She rose through the ranks & eventually married Suleiman the Magnificent. She broke tradition as the Sultan only married noble ladies prior.
aDDZ TIL that the NES gun used in duck hunt worked by you pulling the trigger, making the screen flash, surrounding the ducks (targets) in white and the diode in the gun begin reception. The photodiode in the gun detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a target.