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TIL the 1990 Lexus LS400 was so ahead of its time that 5% of its sales were from rival auto manufacturers, who were in awe of it’s engineering.

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nWoJG TIL that in 1974, filmmaker Bob Clark directed a horror film, "Black Christmas," about a deranged killer who murdered girls on a sorority campus during the Christmas season. 9 years later in 1983, Clark once again directed a Christmas film, this time a family-comedy, titled "A Christmas Story."
GYbj7 TIL a robot named hitchBOT successfully hitchhiked across Canada but when he tried to repeat this feat in the US he was beaten to death and dismembered in Philadelphia
neO4o TIL thieves stole a radiotherapy unit from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap. The caesium unit was opened and admired for its mysterious blue glow. Hundreds fell ill and 4 people died of radiation poisoning.
VMgAk Nasa astronaut twins Scott and Mark Kelly no longer genetically identical after space trip.
NXbdM TIL that in 2016, France legislated a Food Waste Law that bans supermarkets from wasting unsold food. It mandates that supermarkets must compost their leftover produce, or donate the goods to charity.