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TIL cup holders weren't built in cars until 1983
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Me0V8
Today I learned camels originated in North America, but went extinct here along with mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers, and horses, coinciding with the migration of humans from Asia.
OooML
TIL in 1996 and 1997, Emily Rosa, 9, tested 21 therapeutic touch practitioners whether their claims to detect "human energy fields" were true. After finding they were right only 44% of the time, she published the results on 1998, becoming the youngest person to have a research paper published.
4XGvN
TIL the name of "Germany" in the Navajo language means "Metal Cap-wearer Land", referencing the distinctive wartime steel helmets. In Plains Cree, it is "Among the Steel Helmets", and in Lakota, it is "Bad Speaker Land".
OoD4Y
TIL David “Carbine” Williams, who helped invent the M1 Carbine, was a convicted murderer and created innovative gun ideas while in jail. He was convicted of the shooting of a sheriff who busted his illegal moonshine still. He was released after his family argued his inventions could help America.
Brb6K
TIL that a man survived in a capsized boat at the bottom of the ocean for 60 hours in complete darkness.