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TIL in 2020 the average American auto loan term went above 70 months for the first time.

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PR8w TIL that the towers shown during the Playstation 2’s startup represented games played, one for every game. Tower height was the game’s playtime.
PYb6g TIL Nashville Zoo is located on property that was once a 300-acre slave holding farm. When construction for the zoo began in 1997, this graveyard was not disturbed. It was only in 2013 did the zoo petition to have the bodies exhumed, revealing 9 to 30 African-Americans buried there
GOR5 TIL the Pleiades (a cluster of stars) were used as a method for testing eyesight in ancient times, a soldier who could see at least 7 was given the job of scouts or archers.
D1pPp TIL: The UK eats more baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
W71od TIL of Leonard Lake, a serial killer who had abducted, abused, and murdered at least eleven people in the 1980s. He was caught after accidentally giving police the ID of Robin Stapley, one of Lake's victims, attempting to pass it off as his own.