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TIL Canada makes a car with zero emissions and no noise.

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Eg6o TIL that during the First World War, Siam (now Thailand) sent an army to fight on the Western Front. Because of this, Thailand is the only independent modern Asian nation to have fought in a European theatre of war.
9wAgD TIL of the .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer, a rifle cartridge designed for its projectile to exceed 5000 feet per second. It is based on a .378 Weatherby cartrige necked down to .22 caliber. It never achieved its goals.
e0V9J TIL In 1984, Robert Cunningham, a regular at a pizzeria asked his waitress for help choosing his lottery numbers. He won, came back, and tipped her $3 million.
bExa TIL when the first settlers arrived, oysters were so numerous in the Chesapeake Bay that they were able to filter the whole bay about once a week. Their current numbers are less then 1% of what they were at that time
OGL66 TIL 10 Cloverfield Lane was adapted from a script called The Cellar that was unrelated to the movie Cloverfield.