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TIL That because Run-DMC was reluctant to record Walk This Way, producer Rick Rubin invited Aerosmith into the studio without telling Run-DMC. This put them on the spot so they gave in and recorded the song. It ended up being rap's first mainstream mega hit

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Oopm1 TIL Volkswagen put out an electric car in 1984 called Golf citySTROMer. It had a range of 50 KM and a top speed of around 100 KM/h. Only 100 exemplars were ever produced until production ceased in 1985. Trivia: the word "strom" in German means "current".
MeRA0 TIL about Bishop Curry V - a 11 year old boy from Texas who invented a device called 'Oasis' that is intended to prevent hot car deaths of children. The device contains sensors that detects and manages the car's temperature as it alert parents and authorities.
nW5yG TIL One Of the first introductions of Building regulations came from 17th Century BC Ancient Babylon, and invovled the death penalty for a builder if a house he constructed collapsed and killed the owner
XEBYE TIL that the US Fish and Wildlife department is planning to dump 1.5 tons of poison rat pellets on an uninhabited island off the coast from San Francisco. This island is one of the largest breeding sanctuaries for sea birds. The poison can move through the food chain.
mx5jp TIL that lemons, limes and most of the other citrus fruits we eat do not occur naturally in the wild - they are the result of generations of interbreeding between various combinations of the four "original" citrus fruits