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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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yQOgw TIL of Clive Wearing, who is incapable of forming new memories, and thus every 20 to 30 seconds has the experience of waking from a coma. He keeps a diary, and page after page is filled with some variation of the same text: "Now I am awake."
R7DZ9 TIL when the United States asked to buy the lease for their London embassy, the Duke of Westminster agreed to sell it on the condition that the United States return to his family the state of Virginia, which had been confiscated from them during the War of Independence. The United States declined.
kONPE TIL "jerry-rigged" is actually spelled "jury-rigged," from "jury" as in "temporary" and "rig" from its sailing origins.
gMOeW TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, did not live to see the first human to land on the moon.
mx5BM TIL: Sum41 named the album "Chuck" after the man who got them out of a hotel in the Congo near a warzone