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TIL: NPR’s Car Talk stopped in 2012, but have enough material to broadcast for eight more years

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BroZK TIL That the Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 project is full of historical inaccuracies that were pointed out by nationally recognized historians and ignored
o9ar TIL in Japanese, the Buddhist term for “refraining from saying bad words” is ‘Fuck’.
gME58 TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils
BrY7W TIL William Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller's father and patriarch of the incredibly wealthy family, was a con man and snake oil salesman, and intentionally lent money to impoverished farmers to take their land
KOwdG TIL: Moon Rock Given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin tested to be Petrified Wood