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TIL That in terms of single car company dominance by country, Uzbekistan takes the top spot. 94% of all new car sales are a single brand - Chevrolet

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GYRpJ TIL On September 11th, Flight 93 was delayed by 42 Minutes. The hijacked planes were supposed to take off within 15 minutes of each other. That gave warning to the cockpit, and could have been the reason United 93 never hit their intended target.
M7Nv7 TIL the curved surface of the habitat at the end of the movie Interstellar i.e. Cooper station is based on O'Neill cylinders in which two cylinders each 20miles long and 5miles in diameter rotate about their longitudinal axis thus providing centrifugal force serving as gravity.
5VgAn TIL that the prop money made for Rush Hour 2 was so realistic some crew members attempted to spend it. The money - which, if real, would be about $1 trillion - was then confiscated and destroyed by the FBI.
e0P4k TIL that the South Park creators came up with the idea of Saddam Hussein dating Satan on the set of BASEketball where they’d try to impress girls by ad-libbing lines as the characters
5WoD TIL an FBI informant investigating corruption in LA jail was transferred to different jails, kept in isolation, held under various aliases, and watched around the clock to prevent FBI handlers from finding him. The corruption included brutality and staging “gladiator style fights” between inmates.