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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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woNp1 TIL that the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (rebuilt using the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fought to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862, the first battle between two ironclad warships during the American Civil War.
VM4kG TIL People with pollen allergies can develop "oral allergy symptom" and have mildly allergic reactions to raw fruits/veggies with proteins similar to pollen, such as an itchy mouth/throat.
BrmWL TIL: Atari released the first memory game, called Touch Me in 1974. It wasn't terribly popular, and people who saw it later assumed it was a rip-off of Milton Bradley's Simon. They also released a handheld version later.
E15bV TIL That Soviet TV sets were so faulty and defective, that they would occasionally explode and start house fires which would sometimes kill Soviet citizens
Vyp TIL that getting angry at someone when youre listening to them eating or breathing is called Misophonia, and its a brain disorder