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TIL that the half life of Bismuth is over a billion times the estimated age of the universe

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VMj6G TIL that Chrysler owned Lamborghini from 1987 until 1994
LQ1a9 TIL that typewriters used to not have an exclamation mark on them, or even the number 1, both had to be approximated by typing other characters in their place. 1 was a lowercase L and exclamation marks were the combination of an apostrophe and period.
AWAB TiL:People didn’t empty chamber pots into the streets in the middle ages.
loZB7 TIL that Peru is Portuguese for turkey, meaning that there are two countries in the world called Turkey.
9wZxM TIL that early European railroads locked passengers in train cars. Doing so ended in France after the Versailles rail accident of 1842 killed up to 200 people, who could not escape when a derailment and crash caused a fire.