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TIL Tesla Motors publicly releases their patents to encourage competition and the advancement of electric vehicle technology.

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EgZ8x TIL that baleen whales have two blowholes but toothed whales only have one.
jNVLa TIL that leaders of the Black Panther Party were "neutralized" (murdered, imprisoned, publicly humiliated or falsely charged with crimes) by COINTELPRO, a series of illegal FBI operations.
b6QwZ TIL the oldest documents where a fried potato is mentioned are from Chile in 1629 in the city of Nacimiento, extracted from "Happy Captivity", written in 1673 by Chilean Francisco Núñez de Pineda
E7ap TIL: The most effective treatment for CDI (a bowel disease causing chronic diarrhea) is a fecal transplant, where poo from a healthy person is put in the infected person’s bum, thereby transplanting healthy bacteria into the digestive tract. It is 94% effective as opposed to 30% for antibiotics.
JYJWQ TIL that 8.2% of Norwegians eat tacos every Friday night