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TIL that GM killed off it’s Electric Vehicle, the EV1 because it allegedly threatened the oil industry. Ex-CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, said the biggest mistake he ever made as chief executive was killing the EV1 car.

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98ZB TIL That in 2011 in the US there were 1694 murders using knives, 496 murders with blunt object, 726 using bare hands and feet, and just 323 murders using rifles (including the ‘assault’ variety)
Gdk4 TIL that Christmas trees can be recycled. Louisiana uses them to build shoreline fences to reduce erosion and form new marshes.
NXGk8 TIL that Neil Degrasse Tyson recorded the WTC attacks on 9/11. He caught the second plane strike, and both collapses.
loW5r TIL Rock Band AC/DC, despite being one of Australia's most well known pop culture icons, declined to play at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 because they refused to mime as required by organisers.
78EjP TIL of Burushaski - a language isolate predominantly from Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It has 4 genders - human masculine, human feminine, countable objects, and uncountable ones (similar to mass nouns)