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TIL That Americans are annoyed so much by "Start/Stop" car technology that most Americans will disable the system upon engine start, and that if a car comes with the technology the EPA automatically assumes that 50% of buyers will disable the system when calculating fuel mileage.

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Eymp TIL of the Peter’s Principle, a theory where companies promote people into management on account of performance rather than ability, resulting in incompetent managers and inefficiency.
1aZbP TIL When Carl Jung and Sigmund freud met for the first time, they talked for 13 hours straight
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