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TIL that Tesla is now worth more than Ford Motor Company
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TIL Adam West has a Batman Logo on one of his molars
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TIL Gene Roddenberry was reluctant to include a Klingon in TNG. Worf wasn't even mentioned in the writer's guide. When Worf was finally added to the crew, he was intended to have a minor role. Gradually, Worf became more important to the story and soon became one of the main characters on the show.
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TIL Winston Churchill, along with many of the Royal Navy’s highest ranking men, came very close to death after the ship they were on was fired at by a U-boat with 3 torpedoes. All three struck the hull of the ship, but all failed to explode.
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TIL that carbon dating data for human bones can be thrown off by hundreds of years if the deceased ate a lot of seafood, because the carbon in fish could have been generated hundreds of years ago and then recycled among the fish and plants (and other food) before being caught and eaten by a human.
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TIL that emergency and city transit vehicles have an infrared emitter to forcibly change traffic lights.