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TIL Ford developed a nuclear-powered, steam-driven concept car in 1957

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e4On TIL that Billy Joel stopped a song mid-performance at the Grammys to protest Frank Sinatra’s acceptance speech being cut short to appease advertisers. (moment at three minute mark)
7Myx TIL oil was formed from bacteria in the ocean and not dinosaurs.
AN6Va TIL, of the "bubble of extraterritoriality" enacted by law around the person of then pregnant Princess Juliana of the Netherlands (who fled Nazi occupation in 1940) in 1942, with the purpose of ensuring the eligibility of her issue for the royal succession.
GYWKj TIL that NASA's 50-year project to research gravity and prove Einstein's theory of gravity was nearly abandoned after its research probe's instruments were off. It was saved by the donations of Turki Al Saud, a Saudi Prince whom holds a PHD in Aeronautics and Astronautics
56PP TIL Phoenix, Arizona has a similar latitude to the Ancient city of Carthage, which was a Phoenician city-state. People from Phoenix today are known as Phoenicians.