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TIL a study conducted by American University found that the Toyota Camry (78.5%) and the Honda Accord (76%) both contain more domestic content than the ‘American’ Chevrolet Camaro (68%)

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loQG TIL Curiosity’s average traveling speed is so low, that it would take 3 hours and 40 minutes for it to travel across a football field (endzones included)
yQA6a TIL of Susanne Ripton, a Jew who survived the holocaust as a child. In 1940, when she was 4, soldiers broke into her home in Paris. She was saved when a neighbour rushed in and said that she was her daughter. She spent years hiding. In 1969, she discovered her parents had been killed at Auschwitz.
k7pe TIL That a motorcycle swept away by the Japanese tsunami washed up on the shore in Canada, the owner was identified and the motorcycle was returned.
Gb71 TIL an 18th century man faked his own death to see how people would react. When his wife didn’t cry he caned her.
awkMZ TIL that multiple investigations into Hurricane Katrina and its impact on New Orleans concluded that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which had designed and built the region’s levees decades earlier, was responsible for the failure of the flood-control systems.