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TIL there was a car that set a Guiness World Record in 1975 with over 376 MPG

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R5JJ7 TIL it was legal to bomb commercial aircraft in the US until July 14, 1956
jAdv TIL that companies in America will outsource call center duties to prisons. The prisoners make $0.92 per hour to handle calls.
5V4k8 Today I learned there’s a difference between generative art and AI-generative not-art.
V1AB TIL Chevalier d'Eon was French spy, diplomat, lady-in-waiting, swordsman and a soldier; it was only discovered after his death, in 1810, that he was a fully-formed man, not a woman.
NM0E TIL Pablo Escobar had more illegal money than they could deposit in the banks, storing it in warehouses he annually wrote off 10% as ‘spoilage’ when rats crept in at night and nibbled on the hundred dollar bills