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TIL Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.

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yy18 TIL that Nazi eugenics programs had their start in the United States, with research funded by wealthy industrial leaders. A 1912 Carnegie Institute report even recommended the use of gas chambers as a solution to the problem of cleansing society of the poor, non-white, and mentally ill.
ZpXwY TIL that the person who invented the lobotomy also won a Nobel Prize for it
VBld0 TIL Pandas become too lazy to mate in a perfect habitat
Rn78 TIL If North Dakota seceded from the Union, it would be the world’s third strongest nuclear power.
KYrV4 TIL that the reason our fingers and toes wrinkle when they're submerged in water for a long time is to improve our handling of wet objects.