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TIL if you buy a Volvo through their Overseas Delivery Program, you will receive 2 free round-trip tickets to Sweden to test-drive your car (includes airport pickup/luxury hotel). Then you’ll have 2 weeks to explore Europe in the car (they pay insurance). Volvo then ships your car to you for free

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nWjdB TIL that during the Gulf War the coalition forces suffered nearly as many non-combat losses (145) as losses directly related to combat (148 KIA). This number is mainly due to a single C-130H that crashed while transporting 95 Senegalese soldiers.
b9JoE TIL there is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind. Volunteers every day read the local newspaper on the air, along best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and much more.
Z9dG TIL that in 1976, 3 guys hijacked a school bus filled with 27 kids and an adult, and buried them alive. All 3 were convicted and the children were saved.
WoL8 TIL WD-40 stands for “Water Displacement - 40th attempt”
6Aa7 TIL that sobriety checkpoints are illegal in Texas under the state’s interpretation of the federal Constitution