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TIL in 2017 the 2nd generation Vauxhall Tigra was the car most likely to fail its inspection - over 58% of them ended up failing.

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VBw6Z TIL it used to be illegal for women to wear trousers in the USA
mL1E TIL A Frenchwoman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
R9Jw TIL Hemingway sent F Scott Fitzgerald a draft of A Farewell to Arms, Fitzgerald sent it back with 10 pages of edits, to which Hemingway wrote back: “Kiss my ass.”
xbn0 TIL that in 1879, 150 British troops fought off 4000 Zulu warriors, with only 17 casualties
E1PKx TIL that when EEG was used to measure brain activity of a woman with multiple personality disorder there was no brain activity linked to sight whenever one of her blind 'alters' was in control (although her eyes were open), but that normal activity returned to the area when a sighted alter took over