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TIL if you drive south from Detroit, MI, you will eventually reach Ontario, Canada

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698rw TIL that a fancy electric light fitting is called an Electrolier (analogous to Chandelier, from which it was formed
EGE0 TIL: In europe they have “Social Supermarkets” that allow the poor to buy discarded goods from normal supermarkets at very cheap prices.
aw6EJ TIL: One of the only top executives to be imprisoned for the Volkswagen Emissions scandal was arrested due to a fluke. Having been transferred back to Germany, he came to the United States for a vacation with his wife and was seized as he waited for a departing flight in Miami.
wm6J TIL that foxes were domesticated in the USSR and Russia using a 45 year breeding process
16k9X TIL Fritz Lang’s film “Woman in the Moon” is often cited as the first occurrence in media of the "countdown to zero" before a rocket launch. It was so influential that the first successfully launched V-2 rocket at the rocket facility in Peenemünde had the Frau im Mond logo painted on its base.