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TIL that Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1953 that set the first self-driving cars to be released around 2015

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oRBBY TIL that a video game composer snuck a subliminal message to try and deter pirates with a faint message repeated in the intro song : "You will not copy this game."
9w7BG TIL the idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from a comic strip of the same name that ran in U.S. newspapers from 1913-1940. It featured the McGinis family, often struggling to keep up socially and materially with their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.
Oo7We TIL that in a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, David Bowie said his public declaration of bisexuality was "the biggest mistake I ever made" and that "I was always a closet heterosexual."
9ORM TIL On Valentines day Roman priests use to kill goats and take their skin, soak them in blood and go around streets slapping women and crops with them in order to make them fertile for the year
M9DW TIL Oregon was bombed by Japanese during WWII. The attacks were minor, but they were the first time the contiguous United States was bombed by enemy aircraft.