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TIL a gasoline engine vehicle has 2,000+ moving parts compared to 18 moving parts in an electric vehicle

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WxR4 TIL the poorest place in the US is 96% Native American and the median income of men is $0
xVM0o TIL sarla thakral was the first indian women to be a pilot at the age of 21 in 1936, pre independence india. She got married at 16 but persisted to become a pilot. She had a daughter when she became a certified pilot.
OoyP6 TIL: Aretha Franklin was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
j6XQj TIL a pilot "pushed" a fellow aviators plane out of hostile airspace during the Vietnam war so they could safely eject over friendly skies and be rescued.
BGrK TIL John Quincy Adams called for the adoption of the metric system in the 1820s.