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TIL General Motors first produced and sold an EV more than 25 years ago. However, the EV1 could only be leased as it was part of a “real world engineering evaluation”.

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9YaJB TIL that Herodotus, also known as “The Father of History”, was accused by a fellow historian, Thucydides, of making up stories for entertainment. Today, modern Historians and Archaeologists have confirmed most of what he wrote in “Histories”, to be factual.
1d5D TIL the Golden Hamster’s name in Arabic, where they are originally found, roughly translates to “Mister Saddlebags”
YpkMx TIL that Penis Captivus is a rare occurrence in intercourse when the muscles in the vagina clamp down on the penis much more firmly than usual (a form of vaginismus), making it impossible for the penis to withdraw from the vagina.
VxKG TIL that during Vietnam, the US would play a soundtrack listed as the ‘Ghost tape’. It would play funeral songs and voices supposedly from the dead warning the soldiers to surrender or suffer the same fate.
1a8NV TIL for several years the CIA paid sex workers to bring men back to a “safehouse” brothel so they could secretly dose them with LSD and watch what happened through a two-way mirror in an effort to find a mind control drug.