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TIL 6 out of 10 cars with the highest safety complaint rates in the US are Chrysler products.

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x69Mb TIL That France shares its largest border not with a european country but with South America’s Brazil.
GAygN TIL the "first complete Bible of any sort to be published in America didn’t come along until 1663. John Eliot’s Algonquin-language translation of the Bible, the so-called “Eliot Indian Bible,” was the first Bible to be published in the Western Hemisphere."
rRymo TIL that burrito, which means “little donkey”, gets its name because it carries a bunch of different things.
OGBp7 TIL about Flight 149. On 8/2/1990, the flight stopped to refuel in Kuwait, the same day Iraq invaded Kuwait. All 385 passenger and crew were taken hostage and were abused. Allegedly, the flight was allowed to fly despite warning from the Foreign Office, because it was a Trojan horse for MI6 agents.
5Y05B TIL that a 2017 study about fitness trackers found higher rates of error when the trackers were used by people with darker skin tones.