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TIL London Cab drivers protested Uber by bringing gridlock across central London. Bringing nearly 1000% increase to app installations and caused a stark decease in Black cabs uses hastening their decline.

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VMQ1G Today I learned that Bolivia has one of the world's largest deposits of lithium, critical for production of lithium ion batteries.
xv51 TIL Italian striker Mario Balotelli has never missed a penalty kick in his career.
Ngr1 TIL that while in the Army Clint Eastwood was in a plane that ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific, where afterwards he and the pilot swam 3 miles (5 km) to the California coast.
M7ja TIL that farmed Salmon are fed colourings to make their flesh pink, given they don’t feed on the natural krill and shrimp they do in the wild
kJ4y4 TIL when Stalin mispronounced a word while giving a speech, all subsequent speakers felt obliged to repeat the mistaken pronunciation in order to avoid the perception that they were correcting him.