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TIL some people in the USA modify their cars to produce thick black diesel smoke to protest/annoy cyclists and environmentalist. It’s called ‘Rolling Coal’

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X7pP TIL the name of the TIME magazine actually stands for “The International Magazine of Events”
wa0E TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, many of whom were Hindus and Muslims
WR8L TIL: in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
ep0e6 TIL The star SMSS J031300.36−670839.3, while only 6,000 light years from Earth, is 13.8 billion years old, more or less the same age as the universe.
WL44 TIL that there is a school in Moscow whose mission is to enable Russian women to snag rich husbands. Part of the curriculum includes “strengthening and toning the muscles using special equipment — a kind of gym for the vagina.”