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TIL Honda sells the 2025 Fit to their Japan market starting at ¥1,592,000. In US dollars, that is $10,747.

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BOOK TIL that cheetahs were nearly exhausted by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Due to this, cheetahs are almost genetic clones of one another.
B74e TIL that the Nazis, if victorious, planned to drain the Mediterranean Sea to create Atlantropa - a giant continent composed of Europe and Africa.
6E1GX TIL that Nazi Germany conceived of a weapon called the "Sun Gun", which would have been a giant mirror in outer space that used concentrated sunlight to destroy entire cities.
DlGg TIL There is a Star Wars comic where Han and Chewie Crash on earth and Han gets killed by Native Americans, only to have his body found by Indiana Jones 126 years later while Chewie is a jungle legend.
6Rm TIL, it’s possible for a fighter jet to travel so fast that it overcomes it’s own bullets and shoots itself down.