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TIL that when Henry Ford explained his idea of a gasoline powered car to Thomas Edison, Edison encouraged Ford that he “had it”. Ford claimed later that “No man up to then had given me any encouragement”.

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exPL TIL that humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb the anus forms before any other opening (which means we all were at some point nothing but an asshole)
8WNL TIL that China has banned live streams of people eating bananas in a “seductive” fashion.
E1Ye0 TIL Joseph Stalin had a webbed left foot, a sign of the devil in Russian folklore.