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TIL Subaru put seats and carpet in the back of their Brat truck to get around a light truck tariff

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b6YZp TIL that Daryl Hall and John Oates first met and became friends when they ran to the same elevator after a gunfight broke out at a band competition they were both attending
5Ln9 TIL that a man was given a 13 year sentence for armed robbery in the year 2000, but the state of Missouri forgot to put him in prison. They only noticed in 2013, 13 years later, when it came time for his ‘release’.
Ne46 TIL Your brain accounts for only 2 percent of your body weight but consumes roughly 20 percent of your calorie intake. Average newborn’s brain uses close to 75 percent of available energy.
5Y04p TIL Russia has 11 time zones
4bEw TIL that C.S. Lewis entered a civil marriage with a woman so she could avoid deportation. Then, after she developed terminal cancer, they eventually fell in love and re-married while she was in the hospital. They were married for three years before she passed away.