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TIL cup holders weren't built in cars until 1983

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RVa8 TIL Koreans call the platypus a “duck-raccoon”
ZYJp TIL that in Hong Kong a License to operate a taxi costs HK$7.66 million (US$987,600).
wLlkM TIL that 1 to 5 percent of children are afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - in some Native American reservations it is 1 in 4
O9yY TIL that the London Underground has its own implementation of the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), where the platforms are actually uphill from the surrounding track, so that the Kinetic Energy is turned into Gravitational Potential Energy, and recovered when the train leaves the station.
yQnYJ TIL: Canada has a desert - Columbia Plateau