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TIL Henry Ford had two automobile companies fail to nothing before founding the Ford Motor Company which delivered the Model A in 1904

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J17xB TIL Many Amazon Prime Day Deals are fraud and one needs to check price history before buying even from established sellers. For example, "Wyze Lifestyle" jacked up prices for their Wyze Scale X products on Prime Day only to bring them back down with a "Prime Day Deal" (https://imgur.com/Zi8yNVF).
ep5Zg TIL of the Christopher Thomas Knight aka the "North Pond hermit" who claims to have lived 27 years without human contact. He lived alone in the woods and committed around a thousand burglaries during this time to sustain himself. When he was finally caught he was sentenced to 7 months in jail.
XDOk TIL, that Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.
kJ6Ge TIL that in 1990 Green Day's original drummer, John Kiffmeyer, left the band to focus on college. 3 years later Green Day would sign with Reprise Records and attain nationwide stardom.
e075g TIL When Oprah gave each of her audience members a free car it came with an almost 7k gift tax.