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TIL that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile in the United States.

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b607N TIL almost half of selfie-related deaths worldwide since October 2011 have taken place in India
rRAXw TIL that pandas in captivity lose interest in mating - so they are shown videos of other pandas having sex to encourage them to mate.
P1P5J TIL That Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, sank on Christmas Day 1492 and the salvaged timbers were later used to construct a fort named La Navidad.
d8oK7 TIL of Unpaired Words, negative words whose positive forms are rare or no longer in use. For example, the opposites of 'overwhelmed', 'innocent', and 'inert' are the rarely heard 'whelmed', 'nocent', and 'ert'.
wBVE TIL Two privacy researchers from the University of Texas were able to unmask Netflix users’ political and sexual orientation by taking the “anonymized” movie ratings (released as part of Netflix Prize) and comparing them against non-anonymized movie ratings posted at IMDB.