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TIL cup holders weren't built in cars until 1983

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5V0ak TIL Pinkerton detective agency, the main antagonists is Red Dead redemption 2, are a real company founded in 1850 that still exists today, and they tried to sue Rockstar games for copyright infringement for using their name. Companies like Amazon and Starbucks have used Pinkerton for union busting
xV7D1 TIL that lodestones (natural magnetic stones) are very probably made when a lightning strikes ferrite stones ; a scientist proved it by sending a small rocket containing this type of stone into a storm cloud and the stone returned magnetic
ANx4g TIL about the complicated border in the village of Baarle, which has 22 Belgian exclaves and seven Dutch enclaves within the Belgian exclaves
oRgp7 TIL that Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor in York, England.
GY6x1 TIL that Batman is based on an English vigilante named Bill Smith who fought crime in the 1800s.