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TIL that the Dodge Stealth and the Mitsubishi 3000GT are essentially the same car. The Dodge Stealth is an example of rebadging or badge engineering: that is, a manufacturer creates a distinct automobile by applying a new badge or trademark to an existing product line.

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Pg1G TIL that between 2007 and 2012 no new malls were built in the United States
wyGo TIL The largest virus named Pithovirus was found buried in Siberian permafrost with size up to 1.5 microns. It was revived even though it was 30,000 years old and successfully infected cells raising fears that dangerous viruses could emerge from stasis as climate warmed
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O1N6 TIL that after Gawker ran a story exposing billionaire Peter Thiel’s homosexuality, he funded dozens of lawsuits against the media company bankrupting it
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