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TIL that Tesla can make their cars faster just by updating their software.

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p8wPb TIL that Nancy Sinatra was asked by songwriter Lee Hazlewood to sing one of her songs as if she were "a sixteen-year-old girl who fucks truck drivers". She promptly went on to reach #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada for "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'."
X8AR TIL Sea-Monkeys appeared to “hatch instantly” when you emptied the egg packet into the water because the “Water Purifier” packet used 24 hours earlier also contained eggs.
VBl8k TIL that the founder of Lululemon specifically came up with a brand name that has three L’s because the sound does not exist in Japanese phonetics: "It's funny to watch them try and say it”
b9jVE TIL: The person on the 10,000-Yen banknote is Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was among the first Japanese to visit America in 1860, after the end of Japan's isolation period. He became known as one of the foremost experts on Western culture, and the college he founded, Keio University still stands today.
XQ86 TIL explorers on Greenland found a P-38 aircraft used during WWII buried under 264 ft of ice. They dug it out and restored it to flying condition.