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TIL that buying a Prius doesn’t save most people money on gas spending because it takes 7.5 years to break even on cost and the average car owner only keeps their car for 6 years.

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49R6 TIL that telling “scary ghost stories” on Christmas eve is an all but lost Victorian tradition
oR7lW TIL about the Black Coffey Caverns. A series of caves in Pennsylvania that can only be accessed through a basement.
XBXR TIL Blade Runner’s tears in rain monologue was rewritten by Rutger Hauer the night before filming with the line “all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain” being added. When Hauer performed the scene, the film crew applauded and some even cried.
nDB7 TIL that Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American of the Crow tribe, served in World War II and completed all the requirements to become a war chief while at war, making him the last Crow member to do so.
0dXpM TIL that in 2002, Chumbawamba accepted $100k from General Motors for the rights to use one of their songs in a Pontiac commercial. The band then donated it to a corporate watchdog group that used the money to launch an information campaign against GM.