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TIL Ford uses ping pong balls to measure interior volume.

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ADoJl TIL Theodore Streleski was a Stanford Math PhD student who didn't get his PhD after 19 years of study, and then proceeded to murder his advisor.
8adlZ TIL about Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist whose aim was to end hunger worldwide. He collected seeds of wild crops and deposited them in a seedbank in which to produce new strains of crops. Stalin denounced him and used him as a scapegoat for a famine. He died in prison from starvation.
4kdV6 TIL that the actor who played Otis in the Andy Griffith Show voiced dozens of cartoon charachters including Goliath from Davey and Goliath and Taurus from Space Angel
GY481 TIL that bats are one of the few animals that use a different tone of voice depending on which individual they're talking to.
6El1m TIL: 1$ flight that goes nowhere. It is setup by a retired aircraft engineer from India so that the poor people in India get to experience it in their life time.