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TIL: There are some cars that attract women and others that drive them away.

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j6MeM TIL about Open Insulin Foundation, a team of biohackers working to make insulin accessible to everyone via an open source small scale manufacturing model. Their work started in 2016 with a $16k crowdfund, and now they are transitioning into a 501(c)(3).
9wvp TIL Harrison Ford was paid $10000 for Star Wars
oRxQo TIL Profiteering from academic "pay to publish" was fathered by a man known for pension fraud and passed on his labor exploitation skills to the next generation.
BrAwK TIL Before he got famous on Saturday Night Live, Bill Murray portrayed Johnny Storm/Human Torch in a 1975 Fantastic Four radio show.
Lkebr TIL of the Wanggongchang explosion in 17th century China. It killed 20,000 people, released roughly the same amount of energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and contributed to the eventual fall of the Ming dynasty.