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TIL that China accounts for 80% of Buick's sales

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vPNM8 TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci played a significant role in the founding of modern paleontology
10pd TIL that Jeff Bridges spent over a decade trying to bring “The Giver” to the screen, and wanted his father Lloyd Bridges to play the title character. By the time production actually started, his father was dead and he was old enough to play the role himself.
D15Jr TIL : The orphaned children of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were adopted by the man who wrote the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit"
xVP71 TIL Georgia Tann became a millionaire in the 1930s by babynapping poor people's children, falsifying birth records, and selling them to rich families out of state for upwards of $5,000 (around $91,000 today) such as Joan Crawford and wrestler Ric Flair's adoptive parents.
4k6dw TIL that the X-Patents were patents issued from July of 1790 to July of 1836, all of which were destroyed in a fire. No copies were kept at the time, leaving only the inventors’ copies to reconstruct the entire collection