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TIL most people who have cars with built in GPS use their phones for directions.

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WkglB TIL before dogfighting was a thing, enemy pilots would simply exchange waves or shake their fists at one another. At the beginning of WWI, recon pilots would often resort to throwing bricks, grenades, and even rope in hopes that it would get entangled in the enemy's propellor.
PrBO TIL that Darwin predicted the existence of a moth in Madagascar 45 years before it was seen, and 150 years before it was scientifically publishable.
06QA TIL that the Roman fertility deity, Priapus, was also a guardian god who threatened to violate trespassers with his large penis
9kP6 TIL that as late as the 19th century as many as 2,000 families a day were evicted from their homes in Scotland. Many froze or starved to death where their homes had been.
XEnB8 TIL MLB planned to fold the Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins in 2001. When the Twins had to honor the end of its lease at the Metrodome, MLB kept both squads to maintain an even number of teams. Unluckily for the Expos, they had sold most of their prospects, and moved to Washington, D.C. in 2005.