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TIL the car trunk literally used to be a trunk strapped to the back of the car.

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YrWW TIL that Henri Nestle invented his breast milk substitute to help Europe’s high infant mortality rates. Today, Nestle abuse their market power to get African mothers hooked on their products.
17E8 TIL The late Michael Jackson had once approached J.K. Rowling about the possibility of doing a musical version of Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling said no to the idea.
wLGyP TIL 22 yr old Hilda Clayton, an Army combat photographer and visual information specialist with 55th Signal Company, captured her last photo, and the moment of her death, when a mortar shell exploded in the launch tube during a training exercise with Afghan soldiers
QJZWM TIL Mughal Emperor Akbar faced rebellion from his clerics for entertaining Jesuits in his court.
4kXVo TIL about the Sea Dragon, a fully conceived rocket design that would have launched from the ocean and was designed to put 550 tonnes into low Earth orbit.