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TIL the lost vans in Cars (2006) are a reference to the Death Valley Germans

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N7ng1 TIL from my daughter that gas pump payments are not just automatic transactions enabled by the user like an ATM machine, but an event where the clerk inside the store is alerted and must actually confirm your card is authorized before allowing you to pump your gas.
JY1LQ TIL that Ricky Gutierrez set the Major League Baseball record for seeing the most pitches in a single at-bat (20) in 1998 against a pitcher, Bartolo Colon, who nearly 20 years later is still an active player.
XEyer TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion
7rpaL TIL In 1985 a drug smuggler jettisoned 40 kilograms (76 pounds) of cocaine from his airplane over Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest. A black bear (later dubbed 'Pablo EskoBear') found and ate ALL of the cocaine and died of an inconceivably massive overdose.
4O8b TIL that Iceland gets 100% of its energy from renewable sources.