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TIL that the Toyota MR2 had to be renamed in France, as the pronunciation of MR2 sounds similar to the French words for “It is shitty”

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8aDkG TIL that steel shortages in WW1 is what led women to abandon the corset and transition into bras as we know them today.
w766 TIL In 1896 in Texas, a railroad agent organized a head-on collision between 2 locomotives as part of a publicity stunt for his railroad company and got 40K people to show up. Unexpectedly, the crash caused both engine boilers to explode, killing 3 people and injuring scores of others.
NXe6Q TIL Ondine’s curse occurs when a part of your brain is injured causing you to lose the subconscious drive to breathe
Lk050 TIL of co-emperors Caracalla & Geta,who hated each other.At a meeting set by their mother, Caracalla had Geta killed.Caracalla then killed any who knew Greta.Over 20,000 were killed.It became a capital crime to even say "Greta".Years later he sacked a city because they held a satire of the murder.
4k4vN TIL that space junk/debris falls back to Earth on a daily basis, and not all re-entries are controlled. The CORDS Reentry Database documents objects and payloads that have reentered earth’s atmosphere since 2000.