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TIL in 1966 Ford sold an electric car that could travel 200 miles after 1 hours charge using Sulfur-Sodium battery.

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Br0LW TIL Kazakh author Rollan Seisenbayev wrote a novel about the human-engineered collapse of the Aral Sea, first published in in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Aral's shrinkage left seaside villages and beached shipping vessels far from the shoreline, destroying the fisheries
OoEVg TIL World Record Breaking Waterslide Decapitated a 10 Year Old Boy.
R78ll TIL that there are Dinosaur fossils in Antarctica.
boKN TIL that, until it was forcibly suppressed during WWI, German was the second most widely spoken language in the USA, with many local governments, schools, and newspapers operating in German.
VBVN0 TIL that in the 1920s, the 'Little Albert Experiment' at Johns Hopkins University conditioned a nine-month-old infant to develop phobias of stimuli like Santa Claus and furry animals.