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TIL that the 1986 Buick Riviera was the first car to feature a touch screen. Here’s how in-car screens have grown through history

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YpbA7 TIL if 117-year-old Japanese supercentenarian Kane Tanaka lives for another 21 days, she will become the third oldest person in recorded history. Today she is in fifth place behind Nabi Tajima and Lucy Hannah who lived 20 and 8 days more than her respectively.
xyLb TIL Michael Jordan tipped a cocktail waitress in Vegas with a 5 dollar chip. Wayne Gretzky, who was also at the table, took it off her tray, gave it back to Michael, grabbed a 100 dollar chip from Michael’s stack and put it on her tray. Then he said, “That’s how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael.”
X7LE TIL spiders don’t actually bite you while you’re sleeping, and probably never actually even go on your bed. Bumps attributed to nighttime spider bites are most often due to non-bite disease conditions!
Wk1y4 TIL The football huddle was created by deaf players so they could sign to each other about plays without the opposing team seeing.
GnDg TIL there are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.