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TIL that the world's oldest drivable car as of 2011 is the La Marquise which was first built in 1884

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p8n0e TIL about alkaline hydrolysis, an alternative cremation method where the body is placed in a pressure vessel where a heated mixture of water and lye breaks down the body into its chemical components (i.e. amino acids, peptides, sugars, salts, and calcium phosphate)
5VN4p TIL that in 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted for 8 months. It caused a famine that killed 1/3rd of all Icelanders and changed global temperatures. The 1784 winter saw ice flows in the Gulf of Mexico and a frozen Mississippi river as far as New Orleans
JYgnB TIL on 18 april 1930, the only thing that was announced on BBC was "There is no news" followed by a piano playing
y8Yl TIL a font has been created to allow people to read faster, it works by converting the English alphabet into pix-elated-like symbols and then condenses them. This font is called ‘Dotsies’.
R5oxw TIL that in the 4th century BC a man named Herostratus burned down the Temple of Artemis one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for clout.