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TIL electric cars existed before gasoline cars, with early electric vehicles on the road decades before the first internal combustion-powered cars were even invented.

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8oXX TIL that Edison once offered Tesla $50,000 to increase the efficiency of his prototypes. After months of work, when completed, Edison failed to pay and remarked “When you become American, you will appreciate an American joke.”
WJyB TIL that men get sleepy after sex because the hormones released during ejaculation are associated with relaxation, reduced stress and sleep.
OoaM6 TIL due to the octopus's intelligence, they and all other cephalopods are the only invertebrates that need to be anesthesised before surgery.
KOEPa TIL Yogi Bear used to be the mascot of a chicken restaurant franchise, and when they all closed, the statues were dumped in the middle of a forest. This site became a tourist attraction in and of itself, known as the "Yogi Bear Graveyard".
nevRW TIL that the Pythagorean theorem was discovered and proven by Babylonian mathematicians 1000 years before Pythagoras was born