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TIL that the last ever original Mini to leave the factory was a car that was used by workers to get around the plant, had a shipping container dropped on it, stripped of its engine and gearbox, and abandoned in one of the service tunnels. It was recovered and sold at an auction in 2013.

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xV7Vw TIL Lillian Asplund was the third to last living survivor of the Titanic disaster, and was the last survivor with firsthand memories of the event. With her death in 2006, the Titanic officially faded from living memory and solely into history.
8WNL TIL that China has banned live streams of people eating bananas in a “seductive” fashion.
XELmX TIL that during a 1973 Rolling Stones tour of Australia Keith Richards lived with a single mother and her son for a week, taking care of the baby while the mother was at work stating that "There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know I wiped his ass.".
9YAep TIL that in an episode of star trek TNG aired in 1989 Picard states that Fermat's last theorem would still be unsolved 700 years in the future. Picard was wrong. The theorem was solved in 1995.
B8yK TIL Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil was tortured for 2 years(1970-72) by the military dictatorship in Brazil at the time. She was a member of various left-wing and urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship.