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TIL Ford’s Model T could achieve over 20 MPG and run on gasoline, kerosene, or ethanol.

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80xX TIL the fall of Nokia has decimated Finland’s economy: “By 2000, Nokia accounted for a mindboggling 4% of Finnish GDP, 70% of Helsinki’s stock exchange market capital, 43% of corporate R&D, 21% of total exports and 14% of corporate tax revenues. It was and still is unprecedented.”
kO7N1 TIL The leaf which cartoon characters use as an umbrella sometimes, is actually a real plant, named Colocasia or commonly called Elephant Ear Plant.
l7oj5 TIL about Narcocorridos or drug songs commissioned by drug cartels to sing about the illegal drug business
YpjRB TIL Oskar Saville, a former lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs after Natalie Merchant departed, is now a "transformational energy coach” with rates of $10,000 for 4 months worth of emails and text messages
4MgN TIL Monica Lewinsky, as of 2014, had still not held a full-time job since leaving the Pentagon in 1997.