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TIL: As of 2018, back-up cameras in new cars are not a "feature", they are a requirement.

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b688p TIL Manet’s (the famous French painter) mother was the goddaughter of the King Charles XIV John of Sweden.
loQRa TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator (1982) is older by first release than Microsoft Windows (1985)
lYYK TIL Henrietta Lacks died in 1951. The tumor that killed her has been alive and growing to this day.
w17M TIL of H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, who built a hotel full of hidden rooms and trap doors in order to kill visitors. He had 9 confirmed kills, confessed to 27, and is estimated to have killed up to 200 people.
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