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DmVv TIL Jeep mass produced a fully electric delivery vehicle for the USPS in 1974.
6ERGl TIL that the egg came first
PpeV TIL Ikea is run as a non-profit to take advantage of significant tax breaks.
Yppyr TIL in 2009 Airmen Colton Read went in for gallbladder surgery and woke up with both legs amputated. Military doctors punctured his aorta and waited 8.5 hours to get him proper medical care. Read isn't legally allowed to sue for damages.
oRYJ7 TIL if you time-traveled to the early 1500's, roughly one million of your direct ancestors would be going about their lives on Earth (one million great great great great gr..... grandparents). If they didn't all procreate you wouldn't be alive today.