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

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wLQEP TIL Silver foxes were selectively bred for domestication in the 1950's in order to study evolution. As with dogs, the ears started to droop as physical manifestation of docility, and some even started vocalizing barks as like dogs
9YPX TIL That Alan Moore claims to have met his creation John Constantine twice IRL, the second time he told him the secret of magic.
xV7D5 TIL Eugene Merle Shoemaker is the only person with remains placed on a celestial body outside Earth. On July 18, 1997 Shoemaker died in a car crash while on an expedition for crater sites in Australia. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe.
eewk TIL that as many as 1.2 million US citizents of Mexican descent were forced out of the United States from 1929-1939 by federal and local authorities | It was claimed that the expulsions would free up jobs for “real Americans” during the Great Depression
AbWo TIL in WW2 that Raymond Collishaw, leading pilots who were outnumbered and outgunned, flew their only Hawker Hurricane from base to base and on as many missions as possible to make the Italians believe that they had many. The plan worked as the Italians spread their resources out thinly.