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TIL Scientists are working on a technology where the road can charge electric cars as they drive on it.

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PmwO TIL Dozens of ships are still buried underneath the San Francisco financial district. They were abandoned during the gold rush and never moved.
R5okQ TIL The Journal of Forensic Sciences looked at 400 movies and 126 fictional villains and concluded “No Country for Old Men”Anton Chigurh as the most realistic villain
6eB8 TIL that there are 3 places in the world (all of them in Russia), in which the difference between record high and record low temperatures is higher than 100 degrees Celsius (or 180 degrees Fahrenheit)
yX4v TIL a Canadian artist stopped an oil pipeline being built on his land by copywriting the top six inches of said land as his artwork.
KOB74 TIL Warren Zevon hated Sweet Home Alabama, surmising that those who listen to it "because their own lives are miserable," even writing a song about how much he hated it