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

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ANMOg TIL the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing took an estimated inflation-adjusted $10 000 to produce
kJg9W TIL About ,Meher Baba observed total silence for over 44 years (1925–1969), believing true communication went beyond words. He used hand gestures and an alphabet board, famously saying, “I have come not to teach but to awaken.”
gMBLW TIL that there was a war fought over the shooting of a pig, called the Pig War, between the US and Britain.
R7gJQ TIL author Ed Abbey’s last wishes were for friends to transport his body in a pickup truck, foregoing undertakers, embalming or coffin in favor of an old sleeping bag and disregarding all laws concerning burial. He was laid to rest at a secret location in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta desert.
wLn61 TIL that despite the Seven Years' War between Britain and France, France instructed its ships not to interfere with the Endeavour's expedition to Tahiti to observe the 1769 Transit of Venus as, it was ‘out on enterprises of service to all mankind'.