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TIL Musician Neil Young owns a custom 1959 Lincoln Continental modified into a hybrid electric car, named “LincVolt”.

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0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
9ZPM TIL in 2010 a joke political party in Reykjavik, Iceland, openly stated they would keep none of their campaign promises. They won 34.7% of the city vote, with their founder (a comedian) becoming mayor.
gM4pb TIL human decomposition begins 4 minutes after death, its called autolysis, or self-digestion. Blood circulation and respiration stop. Excess carbon dioxide causes an acidic environment, causing membranes in cells to rupture. Enzymes begin eating the cells from the inside out.
kJQeE TIL that Zera Yacob, a 17th-century Ethiopian philosopher, wrote a treatise advocating reason, individual conscience, and developed a rationalist philosophy decades before Descartes and the European Enlightenment.
VMPap TIL in 1816, 147 shipwrecked Frenchman were stuck adrift on a makeshift raft when their captain cut the rope towing them. It took only 3 days for them to resort to cannibalism & only 15 survived to be rescued after 13 days. The aristocrat captain hadn't sailed in 20 yrs & it was 100% avoidable.