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TIL in 2012 the "average" car sold in the UK was a 5-year-old Vauxhall Corsa with 57,000 miles on the clock.

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e05Kn TIL of COCOM limits, controls placed on GPS systems which stop them from functioning at a speed of over 1200 MPH and/or 59,000 feet. These are specifically in place to prevent the GPS from being used to guide missiles.
4eyb TIL that President Lyndon B Johnson owned an “Amphicar,” an amphibious car and would surprise unsuspecting guests by driving down a steep incline towards a lake and scream “The brakes don’t work! The brakes won’t hold! We’re going in! We’re going under!”
0w4yA TIL of Béla Kiss, a Hungarian serial killer who killed and drank the blood of 24 people. He also pickled their corpses in alcohol and stored them in metal drums. He escaped arrest and was allegedly sighted in New York in 1932 working as a janitor.
XEQvr TIL that India is named after the Indus River, almost 90% of which runs through Pakistan, their long time rival.
V0eZ TIL the inventor of the land mine detector - Polish Lieutenant Józef Kosacki - didn’t patent his invention, instead deciding to gift it to the British Army in 1941.