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TIL Hackers worked out how to open BMW car doors via SMS by reverse engineering their assist technology.

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R5jR4 TIL that the phrase "Friends of Bill W" is a dogwhistle meaning members of Alcoholics Anonymous, after the organization's co-founder Bill Wilson.
GY61G TIL that people live inside the Grand Canyon. Supai Village, the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, boasts a population of a couple of hundred residents, is considered the most remote community in the continental US, and is the only place where mail is delivered and carried out by mule.
e0JO6 TIL: Canned food was invented in 1810, but the first can opener was patented in 1858.
R7Ddl TIL of Ben L. Salomon, a U.S. Army dentist during WW2, assigned as a front line surgeon. When the Japanese started overrunning his hospital, he took action, allowing the safe evacuation of the wounded and killing as many as 98 enemy troops before being killed himself during the Battle of Saipan.
p8wVO TIL Henry Ford helped industrialize charcoal briquette production with Ford Charcoal, which later became Kingsford