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TIL Cuba Gooding Jr.'s dad was banned from the set of "Jerry Maguire" for asking Tom Cruise if he was gay or not

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rmdM TIL Google has created and tested driverless cars on the streets of California, and over the course of 300,000 miles, they’ve only been in two accidents: One while someone was driving the car manually, and one in which the car was rear-ended at a stoplight.
8aorX TIL that in 1867, a shopkeeper named Lily Maxwell was accidentally placed on the voter register for a Manchester by-election. She became the first woman to vote in the UK, 50 years before women's suffrage.
9wppm TIL Chevrolet’s first V8 was 288 cu. in. (4.7 L) and only produced 36hp at 2700 rpm.
vkD7 TIL that Japanese scientists won IG Nobel Prize for creating a wasabi fire alarm for members of deaf community
b94Np TIL that the children of identical twins are genetically siblings rather than cousins. This is because they share 25% of their DNA. Full siblings share 50% of their DNA, half-siblings share 25%, and cousins share 12.5%. Thus, they are the genetic equivalent of half-siblings.