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TIL of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company which manufactured luxury vehicles from 1901 to 1938, including the 1928 Fleet Housecar, a early RV.

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oM4R TIL the cousin of the “ Internet Bully Hero”, that slams a kid on the floor at school for bullying him, committed suicide. Because of bullying.
eNX5 TIL In 2011, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy hacked into a one of the most commonly used electronic voting machines and concluded in their report: “anyone with $26 in parts and an eighth-grade science education would be able to manipulate the outcome of an election.”
9YoBB TIL That Finland, the country that consumes the most coffee in the world is also the happiest country in the world
69RAQ TIL the most common videos of the February 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor were recording by dashcam.
wokEJ TIL about airship spy baskets. Used by Germans during WW1, an airship hidden above clouds would lower a basket with a lookout below the clouds to help navigate or find bombing targets.