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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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dvRK TIL Vin Diesel agreed to make a cameo appearance in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in exchange for the rights to the Riddick franchise.
loDar TIL that the Azerbaijani village of Qırmızı Qəsəbə is the world's only all-Jewish town outside Israel and the USA, and is considered to be the world's last surviving shtetl. Alongside Azerbaijani and Russian, residents also speak Judeo-Tat, the traditional language of the Mountain Jews
x6KKg TIL in 2022, BMW offered subscriptions for customers in the U.K. that would enable them to use their car's heated front seats (£15 per month) or heated steering wheel (£10 per month).
KXrw TIL that there are actually five Dwarf Planets in our Solar System.
B4DD TIL the burial site of Genghis Khan has still not been found. The funeral escort allegedly killed anyone and anything that could haves witnessed the location of the emperor’s final resting place. The slaves that built the tomb were also slaughtered, as were the soldiers that murdered them..