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TIL that we in the US don’t have small trucks anymore is because the government made a formula that incentivizes bigger trucks and cars

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VBrO0 TIL bagasse, the leftover material after sugarcane juice extraction, can produce enough electricity to sustain a sugar mill’s operations.
Axox TIL after describing female journalists as “buck-and-a-half hookers”, Frank Sinatra was under siege for 3 days in a Sydney hotel and stranded because airport union staff refused him service, declaring “If you don’t apologise, you won’t be allowed to leave Australia unless you can walk on water.”
kJOVE TIL after the catastrophic Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, the city was rebuilt with the world's first anti-seismic architecture. All buildings were restricted in height, poles were driven into the riverbed to reinforce, and streets were made into wide boulevards.
D7Kp TIL that in 2006, all outdoor advertisements were banned in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Within a year, 15000 billboards were taken down in South America’s largest city.
4XjWw TIL that a box of negatives discovered by Dutch history buff Jo Teeuwisse at an Amsterdam flea market more than 10 years back led to a one-of-a-kind project where dramatic photo manipulations put WW2 American soldiers in the exact same spots — in modern-day.