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TIL nearly half (46%) of US EV owners want to switch back to a gasoline-powered car.

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Zp0oo TIL Winnipeg's 11 storey Union Bank Building became Canada's tallest building and second-tallest in the British Empire upon completion in 1904. By the mid-1990s, it was completely empty and sat vacant for 18 years
0rGN TIL that as Jiffey Lube was recommending 3,000 mile oil change intervals, they also happened to be owned by the Shell Oil Company. A 5,000 mile oil change is considered an early one, by most vehicle manufactures.
wol68 TIL: The word 'pencil' comes from a Latin word meaning 'small penis'.
XE0dR TIL that the last "wild" American Indian - Ishi - walked out into the Western world near Oroville, California in 1911
4XAVN TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. is honored in Hiroshima because of his anti-nuclear weapons stance