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TIL Toyota’s Tundra pickup is made of 70% Domestic parts, which ties the Ford F-150 for “Most American truck.” RAM trucks came in 3rd at 61% domestic parts. Chevy and GMC trucks came in last behind Nissan with less than half of their parts made in America.

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oBoZL TIL the most recent restoration of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci took 21 years to complete
MeV17 TIL that the very last Peanuts comic strip, in which creator Charles Schultz ended the story of Charlie Brown and said farewell to his fans, was drawn by Schultz in November of 1999. He would die in his sleep three months later — the night before the final comic was published.
N7JB1 TIL: The first-ever solar-powered satellite, Vanguard 1, is "the oldest human-made object still in orbit" (plus some of its launch rocket). Launched in 1958, it stopped talking in 1964 but continues orbiting. The three sats older than it (Sputniks 1 & 2, Explorer 1) are no longer in orbit.
LQOyv TIL that the Venetian Patent Statute, in 1474, is widely accepted to be the basis for the earliest patent system in the world.
EgKj7 Today I learned violin strings are made from sheep intestines then wrapped in metal