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TIL PETA kills 97,3% of the animals under it’s care

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xVYao TIL that skywriting was invented by the Royal Air Force in World War I to send messages to troops on the ground. After the war, Pepsi built a fleet of skywriting biplanes.
8e9KX TIL By the end of the 19th century, nearly 40% of American cars were electric.
nVjd TIL that during the Cold War, the USSR was able to tell a Soviet passport was a forgery because the staples in real passports would corrode due to the poor quality of metal.
MeZY7 TIL that C3PO and R2D2 aren't just Star Wars characters—they're different types of proteins involved in RNAi!
GOv1 TIL Steve Jobs’ doctors correctly predicted that the St. Patrick’s Day/March Madness weekend would cause fatalities that would yield the organ donation he needed.