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TIL in the mid-1960s three corporations, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, controlled over 90% of the American new car market. GM alone had a nearly 50% market share at that point.

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DQKdD TIL The US National Solar Observatory requires a swimming pool’s worth of ice to be added each night into its tanks so coolant can be distributed through the observatory. The heat is intense enough to rapidly melt metal at the telescope mirror’s focal point
wLyNE TIL Roman Fathers Could Sell Their Kids Into Slavery – But Only Three Times
j7en TIL Hiroshima is one of the only places outside of the United States to observe Martin Luther King Day because he wrote a letter to Japan weeks before his death, requesting to visit the county and spread his message of peace.
R7mw4 TIL in 1954 the obninsk nuclear power plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially.
QNn16 TIL in the 1950s, the CIA exploited Filipino vampire myths to instill fear in villages, killing a man, marking him with bite wounds, and hanging him upside down. This was part of efforts to help elect Ramon Magsaysay, a U.S. backed president.