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TIL Legalizing direct-to-consumer car sales would reduce the average price by over $3000

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xLg5 TIL Between 60-70% of the French prison population is Muslim.
XE1Kj TIL Harriet Tubman, in addition to organizing the Underground Railroad, served with the U.S. Army as a scout, spy, nurse and soldier during the Civil War, leading a raid with the African-American 2nd South Carolina regiment that freed over 700 slaves.
mxwDP TIL Differences in traits between wheat-growing north and the rice-farming south of China. Northerners were more direct and less concerned with social conformity than Southerners, who were more "interdependent, holistic-thinking and fiercely loyal to their friends" attributed to climate differences.
6Ek9X TIL: That in 2003 April the Tomb of Gilgamesh was supposedly found.
ePRE TIL In 1904, tea bags were invented accidentally. The inventor, Thomas Sullivan, decided that it was cheaper to send small samples to potential customers in silk bags instead of boxes. The recipients believed they were meant to be dunked and soon Sullivan was flooded with orders for his “tea bags”.