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TIL Ford once created a vehicle made out of plant materials. “Ford’s 1941 biological car — made of soybean, wheat, hemp, flax and ramie fibers in a soy-based phenolic resin — weighed 1,000 pounds less than a steel car”

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p8xre TIL that every number is the sum of three palindromes
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b9Gy4 TIL "Trepanning" surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled into the human skull
5YJ7n TIL: Fashion designer, Edward Windsor, is the closest relative of Queen Elizabeth II who cannot succeed to the British throne because of his conversion to Catholicism.
QNnx9 TIL about "Turkish Coffee Fortune Telling," a centuries-old tradition where people interpret the patterns left in coffee grounds to predict the future. This practice, known as tasseography, is still a popular social and cultural activity in many countries.