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TIL as an April Fool’s joke, Audi once advertised a car with a built-in rice cooker in Japan

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Br7K TIL that Back to the Future II was originally going to take Marty McFly to 1967 where he’d meet an acid-tripping , motorcycle-riding Doc Brown and his hippie parents. The entire script is available online.
Bb1y TIL Chimpanzees routinely outperform humans in memory contests and simple strategy games.
mBdY TIL Barbara Morgan was the backup teacher to Christa McAuliffe in the ‘Teacher in Space Project’. She became an astronaut to honour McAuliffe and flew in space 21 years after the doomed Challenger shuttle, finally fulfilling McAuliffe’s mission.
GNr1 TIL today is “National Sorry Day” in Australia, a day of being sorry to the aboriginal population for mistreatment during the 20th century
8eG6P TIL that Saudi Arabia planned a bid to host the 2030 World Cup with Greece and Egypt and offered to fund the construction of new stadiums in Greece for the tournament. But, because of controversy for accusations of sportswashing Saudi Arabia's poor human rights record, planning for the bid ceased