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TIL that car window "escape tools" won't work on many modern car windows

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PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.
oBZeR TIL that in 2015, the median viewer age for Fox News was 68 years old.
4ky9X TIL in 1970s the USA built and tested hovertrains
won4E TIL Casey Kasem is buried in an unmarked grave in Oslo Norway.
QJxE6 TIL of the 1971 QANTAS bomb hoax, where a $500,000 ransom was paid to disclose the location of a bomb onboard a QANTAS flight that would detonate if the plane flew below 20,000ft. There was never a bomb on board, and half the ransom is still unrecovered.