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TIL Tesla is the only major American auto manufacturer not represented by a union in the US

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wdQo TIL when Paris’s Cemetery of the Innocents was moved, the human remains (decomposed to mostly fat deposits) were made into candles.
yV7Gl TIL in 1876, Texas set aside vast tracts of land for the state university system. At the time the land was considered to be worthless but was later found to contain oil. As of 2015 the fund is worth $17 billion.
w6kP TIL That in Japan they have specific sections of sidewalks textured for blind people’s canes so they know where shops, subways, and crosswalks are located.
9Aa6 TIL Amtrak will attach privately-owned rail cars to their trains so you can travel between points in North America.
wLYB7 TIL rapper Big Sean's grandmother was one of the first black female captains in World War II, and she also worked as a police officer in Detroit