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TIL Parts of New York City have a vacuum-driven garbage-collection system that literally sucks trash through pipes under the streets to a central disposal location–and has had it for 35 years.

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mxMbP TIL when Renault was planning to release a model called Zoe, a woman named Zoe Renault sued the company to make them change the car's name. However, the court allowed Renault to release the Zoe, which has become the all-time top selling electric car in the French market.
yMEp TIL that a pilot was recorded saying “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue” shortly before his plane crashed on Dec. 8th 2005.
wLJGo TIL That Psycho is the very first movie to ever a show a toilet.
a8k0M TIL the CEOs of AMD and Nvidia are related. Jensen Huang is a cousin of Lisa Su's mother.
wLKlo TIL of Howard Blackburn—a sailor who, after becoming stranded and losing his mittens in a small boat off the coast of Newfoundland, let his hands freeze in a hooked position so he could row back to shore. He lost all his fingers, but survived and went on to sail across the Atlantic single-handedly.