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TIL some Beanie Babies are still worth more than a new car.

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p8rMN TIL the first 'talking car', the 1982 Datsun 810 Maxima, stored its voice messages ("lights are on", "left door is open", "fuel level is low", etc.) on a 3-inch, shock-resistant, plastic phonograph record.
1aWNX TIL that when you get a sunburn, it's not your skin cells being damaged by the sun's UV rays and dying, it's your skin cells' DNA being damaged by the sun's UV rays making the cells kill themselves to prevent turning into cancer
nWoAo TIL that Isaac Newton became a member of Parliament but only spoke once, telling someone to close the window.
4kJQR TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years
e0Lwb TIL Leslie Nielsen regularly carried a fart machine with him and often used it during televised interviews