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TIL about Alexander Winton, who built and sold the first American-made gasoline car on March 24, 1898. The public was skeptical. "To advocate replacing the horse, which had served man through centuries, marked one as an imbecile."

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ynYe TIL that in the Battle of Asal Uttar (1965 Indo-Pakistan war), the Indian army let the Pakistan army think they had retreated, and then flooded the sugarcane fields they camping in overnight, causing the Pakistan tanks sink into the mud. The Pakistan army lost 100 tanks against India’s 10.
l778A TIL about Nigel, the “World's loneliest bird' who fell in love with a concrete replica and died beside it.
EY6x TIL: Almost 25% of the population of Montana is on Oxycontin.
R7BPj TIL that fans dont make the room colder, they make you colder by evaporating your sweat
pKw8 TIL of Santo Condorelli, a Canadian swimmer, who gives his dad the middle finger before every race he participates in.