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TIL that one of the major problems of the Chrysler Turbine car was that it’s exhaust would melt the car behind it in traffic

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pM4A TIL there is a small, one-story building in Wilmington, Delaware which serves as the official address of nearly 300,000 companies. Up to 200,000 are believed to be shell companies.
v1XG4 TIL approximately once every 18 months (on average) a total solar eclipse is visible from some place on the Earth’s surface
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wLMMJ TIL: Fawns are born relatively odourless as a defence mechanism.
16Op8 TIL that our spinal chord has consistency of a Banana