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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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J1dAk TIL; There were no women special agents in the FBI from 1928 to 1972, as J Edgar Hoover banned the recruitment of women in 1924 and eased out the 3 women agents serving at that time
v1xJR TIL that Scooby-Doo got his name from a character named Scooby the Seal, from an earlier Hanna-Barbera series "Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor". Both characters were voiced by Don Messick.
MVOB TIL Since 2007, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, has been re-appropriated by squatters into a vast ‘vertical slum’ which now includes grocery stores, hairdressers, and an unlicensed dentist.
VwGB TIL A tortoise, Adwaita, lived to 255. To put it into perspective, he was born before the US existed and his death was announced on CNN. (1750-2006)
DQLlr TIL Nancy Sinatra was incredibly nervous recording the theme song to the the movie 'You Only Live Twice'. Producer John Barry had to make the final version of the song by combining her vocals from 25 different takes