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TIL: GM bought out street car companies and tanked them, to sell more cars

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VMQ9D TIL Archaeologists found 2,800 year old ceramic sippy cups with cute animal motifs, containing traces of livestock milk, which suggests infants back then were drinking it. The dates correspond to a baby boom at that time, suggesting that sippy cups were an important innovation for humanity.
j4Kv TIL that people wanted to censor Washington Crossing the Delaware because they thought his watch was his penis
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