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TIL the French car Renault 5 was marketed in the United States by the name Le Car.

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R5eg8 TIL David Busst suffered a leg injury in 1996 so severe that Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel vomited on the pitch and the match was delayed while blood was cleaned from the grass.
6EKYl TIL that late 19th century American Congressman Lucas Miller argued that ''it is possible for the Republic to grow through the admission of new States into the Union until every Nation on Earth has become part of it.'' He also proposed abolishing the Army and Navy
kOwr7 TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. His son, George Paget Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.
AOpx TIL that a man once took a photograph on the exact moment he was assassinated. Thus accidentally capturing his assassin on camera.
GYbdj TIL: Scotland's Duncraig station was grudgingly re-opened 11 years after it was closed because local train drivers simply refused to accept that it had been closed.