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TIL, that earlier this year in May, Tesla motors paid back their government loan. Ford, Nissan, and Fisker still have not.

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8eePK Today I learned that in 1973 Steve McQueen flew to the UK to discuss a film project with Oliver Reed and the two men went on a London pub crawl and got so drunk that Reed puked on McQueen.
4AQ5 TIL George Takei hires writers to contribute posts to his Facebook account
Z8pxo TIL Don Henley called paramedics to his home on November 21, 1980, where a 16-year-old girl was found naked and claiming she had overdosed on quaaludes and cocaine. Henley got away with only a contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge and a $2,500 fine.
KYQ9G TIL about Bart the Bear. He was a trained grizzly bear who starred in numerous movies and served as the Ambassador of Vital Ground, an organization dedicated to preserving threatened wildlife habitats.
VBpQZ TIL that the first commercial mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was released in 1983 and had a price tag of $3,995.