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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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xVk9D TIL that organ donation is on an opt-out basis in Singapore. Citizens who opt-out have a lower priority of receiving an organ should they need one.
JY5oQ TIL that in 1986, Belgrade, then capital of SFR Yugoslavia, came in 4th in the selection of the host of 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona. Only 6 years later, during these olympics, athletes from the FR Yugoslavia were not allowed to participate due to United Nations sanctions.
aEbA TIL Fredrick Douglas said The American people have this lesson to learn: That where…where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
OooAa TIL Sweden first settled the modern US and is responsible for the Log Cabin structure traditionally believed to be an icon of American pioneers