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TIL that the new Toyota Mirai is one of the first fuel cell vehicles being sold commercially and uses hydrogen to run, while emitting water vapor.

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oRWN8 TIL Thomas Edison fabricated the Electric Chair as part of a smear campaign designed to paint Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current (AC) power as more dangerous than Edison's Direct Current (DC) power.
v1V48 TIL that members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarians) are allowed to officiate weddings in New Zealand.
vJe7 TIL the Millennium Tower in San Francisco, a 58-story luxury high-rise whose ‘cheaper apartments’ sell for $2 million, is sinking and tilting to one side - raising fears it may eventually topple over - because “to cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock”.
wLgZJ TIL that after Russia exited World War I, Romania also had to make peace with Germany and Austria-Hungary; but then, six months later Romania re-declared war on them and fought with the Allies to the end
kOMoW TIL in the UK, A study for disappearances looked at 96 fatal cases, 53% of all male disappearances occur in the months December January and February, with 22% of those cases occurring in December between Christmas and new years eve. And 89% of bodies are found in canals, rivers, lakes or harbours.