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TIL electric vehicles predate the model T, and in the year 1900, comprised 38% of cars on the road

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KGQG TIL that in 1996, a deranged man stormed into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and issued one demand – that the station play Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog.
EWmW TIL there is a word that is the opposite of sparkle and it is “darkle”
v1NJ7 TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.
loolr TIL that there is a town in Spain, Corìa del Rio, where there are still descendants of the first Japanese embassy in Europe sent by Date Masamune that decided to remain there because of Christian persecutions in Japan. Their surname is Japón.
VMKgm TIL of Alexis Benoît Soyer (born 1810) who was one of the first “celebrity” chefs. In addition to creating recipes, he invented a stove for soldiers to use during the Crimean war, wrote books and pamphlets on cooking, and did a lot to help the suffering in Ireland during the potato famine.