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TIL when the United States started taxing tires imported from China, China retaliated by taxing chicken feet imported from the United States, costing American poultry farmers $1 billion in sales.

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VM81Q TIL Between 1935-44, William Boeing and his wife set aside land outside Seattle city limits for subdivision and placed covenants to enforce segregation, forbidding properties from being "sold, conveyed, rented, or leased in whole or in part to any person not of the White or Caucasian race."
WkPdB TIL if you double click the shift panel twice and accidentally engage the auto-pilot in Model 3, Tesla will automatically charge you $14100 if you didn't previously purchase auto-pilot
8aDpX TIL of the silver mines of Potosi or the ‘Mountain that eats men’. At one point it produced 60% of the worlds silver. The silver funded Spain’s wars and caused an economic crisis in China in the 16th Century
DQPyV TIL Guarani is the most widely spoken American language and remains commonly used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities.
R575l TIL of James Clerk Maxwell who wrote the first equations unifying electricity, magnetism, and light as being part of the same phenomenon.