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TIL Native Americans domesticated turkeys

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GX1 TIL Hackers worked out how to open BMW car doors via SMS by reverse engineering their assist technology.
8apjL TIL of Thomas Fitzpatrick, who drunkenly stole a plane from New Jersey and landed on the street outside the bar in NYC where a patron didn't believe that he could get from New Jersey to the city in 15 minutes. Two years later he did it again after another bar patron didn't believe his first story.
OG4l4 TIL that life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has risen from 12 years in 1912, to 25 years in the 1980s, to over 60 years in the developed world today.
4N4J TIL the retina in your eye is actually considered to be part of the brain
d0dK TIL the Count of Monte Cristo was likely based on the true story of a man who was wrongfully imprisoned by his friends, found a hidden treasure whose whereabouts were told to him by a dying priest, and later returned to Paris under a false name to exact vengeance on his accusers