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TIL in much of the US it is illegal to buy a new car from the manufacturer. You are required by law to go through the middleman of a car dealer, so they can tac on an extra ~30℅.

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v10dx TIL that French queen Marie Antoinette was offered in 1787 a boy from Senegal as a servant but instead taking him as servant she adopted him as her son and baptized as Jean. During the revolution Jean was separated from the royal family and left by revolutionaries to die on streets at age of 10.
6lLw TIL CIA created a gun that could shoot darts that caused heart attack. Upon penetration of skin the dart left just a tiny red dot. The poison itself worked rapidly and denatured quickly afterwards. It was revealed in 1975 in a Congressional testimony.
9Y5w6 TIL about randomart in ssh. It generates ASCII art from ssh keys. SSH keys are long strings of characters, and they are easy to verify with a computer, but difficult for humans to verify visually. If you regularly ssh to a server, it's anticipated that you'd notice any changes to the picture.
BYdk TIL Doritos could be made without the powder and taste exactly the same. It was left on because it was decided that the residue left on your fingers was part of the “Doritos experience”
PYOrE TIL of Catherine Yasinchuk, a Ukrainian woman who was wrongly institutionalized for 48 years in a Philadelphia asylum because she did not speak English and no one understood her. She’d come to the USA alone at the age of 15, and suffered a nervous breakdown after losing her husband and baby.