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TIL Tesla Cars Were Barred For Two Months From An Entire Chinese District, As Beijing Considers Them US Spies

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NK48 TIL that despite Alzheimer’s Disease killing nearly as many people every year as cancer (in the U.S.), it receives only a tenth of the funding from the government that cancer does.
mwdv TIL that Will Dean, founder of the Tough Mudder, created the race after his wetsuit zipper got stuck during a triathlon & racers around him weren’t willing to sacrifice the time it would have cost to stop and help. He wanted something where teamwork & accomplishment were more important than winning.
w7lE TIL that Hydras, tiny freshwater animals, have to rip their own skin apart just to open their mouth
kY4B TIL that in 2011 Geico spent just under one billion dollars on advertising
VExQ TIL L. Ron Hubbard took a trip to China and in his journal he wrote down his thoughts of the Chinese “They smell of all the baths they didn’t take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.”