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TIL While visiting Camp David in 1973, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was given a Lincoln Continental by Richard Nixon. Brezhnev coaxed Nixon into the passenger seat and then drove off the property, leaving the President’s security detail behind as the two leaders sped down rural, narrow roads.

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NXveE TIL on a beach in 2004 10-yr-old Tilly Smith recognized the signs in the ocean that a tsunami was minutes away because she had studied it 2 weeks before in school. She told a hotel chef who recognized the word tsunami & helped evacuate the area. Her actions are believed to have saved about 100 lives
YppvW TIL Game Dev Tycoon developers leaked a cracked version of the game shortly before official release, so that people who pirated the game would eventually go bankrupt in-game because the games they were developing were being pirated.
neBEB TIL In 1985 2 young Irish boys made it to New York on their own with no money
LQM19 TIL dogs can smell up to 100,000 times better than humans due to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses
Wk9od TIL that in Uber's 2018 fatal self-driving car accident the system mis-identified the pedestrian and didn't act to avoid the accident. The car's emergency braking system could have acted at the last second, but that system had been disabled.