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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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JPVj TIL that Mary Babnik Brown was chosen to donate her hair (which had never been treated with heat or chemicals) to become the crosshairs on Norden bombsights during WWII.
84VZ TIL When someone called the black chauffeur of Alice Roosevelt (daughter of Teddy) a “black bastard”, the driver took it in stride. Roosevelt, however, leaned out the window and shouted “Shut up, you white son of a bitch.”
nWjlr TIL that after his defeat by Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus, Cato the Younger read Plato’s Phaedo and stabbed himself in the stomach, he was found alive and stitched up but when he awoke he ripped his stitches and disemboweled himself
PYQ8Z TIL of Davy and Daryl, twin 10 year olds, who spent 3 years biking from Alaska to Argentina to set a Guinness World Record- only to be denied the title, once completed
K749 TIL that Mötley Crüe’s rider includes a jar of Grey Poupon mustard. Once, in 1988, frontman Vince Neil found the ‘wrong’ brand of mustard backstage, lost his temper and threw the bottle at the wall. It bounced back and severed an artery in his thumb.