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TIL Henry Ford created a car made almost entirely out of plastic. It weighed 30% less than standard cars, could withstand 10 times the damage and ran on ethanol instead of gas. The design never caught on.

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4kaoN TIL that Polaris (the North Star), is only 45-67 million years old. It wasn't around in the time of the dinosaurs.
gMGK7 TIL the song Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover is not about a woman lusting after a man. Instead it's about a woman (the narrator) wishing she could save another woman who is trapped in an abusive relationship. The "I wish I was your lover" line is the narrator longing to show the woman what love can be.
0d1N1 TIL: Over 60% of polar bears live in Canada
wLe1P TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman didn't want his children to be "Trust Fund Kids" so he didn't make a trust for them, which resulted in a $12 million tax bill that he could have avoided if he made a trust and exercised proper estate planning.
WkPBd TIL a Belgian businessman was instrumental to the Manhattan Project's success. Realizing uranium's importance, he shipped 1,200 tons of it to Staten Island. When Lieutenant Colonel Nichols contacted him, he simply responded: "You can have the ore now. It is in New York. I was waiting for your visit"