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TIL Kirk Douglas is alive and well and will be 100 years old in December next year

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xla5 TIL that in 1969 General Motors Holden (Australia) produced a concept car complete with climate control, a rear facing camera and in car navigation.
PYn9V TIL In 1942, the Nazis cracked the algorithm for the serial numbers and rag content of British Pound notes. Using prisoners with counterfeiting skills, near perfect bills were produced with the plan to scatter them over England by air to induce hyperinflation and collapse the economy.
wVjo TIL: While building a new highway in Houston this year, engineers found an ancient Indian burial ground. Archaeologists now say there are 10 sets of human remains as old as 14,000 years.
Mbd7 TIL that many of those public toilet levers can be pulled up instead of down to save water if you went number 1
YYV7 TIL MIT found that the United States has enough geothermal resources to supply for at least 2,000 times its annual consumption of primary energy