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TIL the Skyline from Fast and Furious 4 was seized in 2009 by the US Border Force due to import and registration issues but was eventually released and exported to Germany.

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nWMP TIL that a set of simple algorithms can give rise to amazingly complex patterns that are able to transform, breed, travel, and create. It’s Conway’s Game of Life, and in principle it is the same way organic molecules work together to create the patterns that are life.
neJk7 TIL in 1931 a suspension bridge was built in Maine; the construction was so far under budget that there was enough money left over to build a second bridge elsewhere.
KOXlw TIL that an annual televised showing of Disney cartoons at Christmas Eve is a serious Swedish holiday tradition of near-Super Bowl level viewership
7rExr TIL about Le Gentil. In 1760, went to India to see transit of Venus. He missed it, so he waited there for 8 years until the next one. When he returned, he learned that he had been declared dead: His estate had been divided up, his wife had remarried, and his position at the academy was given away.
4XXPR TIL Shia Labeouf's Big Apology For Plagiarizing His Apologies Was Plagiarized