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TIL The Honda City Turbo is a car that included a little motorized folding scooter designed to fit in the trunk.

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Brrvd TIL: The opening of the male urethra, the meatus, is a vertical slit in order to force urine to exit in a spiral after having traveled the length of the penis in a vertically compressed tube. This design allows for greater control of the stream and also keeps the end of the urethra clean.
KDY4 TIL President Nixon once described Timothy Leary as “the most dangerous man in America”, simply because he was an advocate of psychedelic drugs.
Y7n4Z TIL that Candy Crush has grossed more than the top 3 movies of all time... combined.
nWPOY TIL that in December 1984 an engineer named Stanley Watras set off radiation alarms at the under construction Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania, despite the fact no nuclear fuel was yet onsite.
gMjG8 TIL that the world's oceans/seas can and often do have distinct NATURAL borders (clines). Not just nebulous boundaries drawn on maps, large bodies of water can differ so greatly in substance & salinity that there can be a distinct, vivid line between even WHOLE OCEANS, e.g Pacific vs. Atlantic!