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

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Rwmj TIL that a Portuguese Man of War is not actually a jellyfish, but rather a colony of specialized minute individuals called “zooids” that are dependent on one another for survival
kkg7 TIL in 2001, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the right of Alice Randall to publish a parody of ‘Gone with the Wind’ called 'The Wind Done Gone’, which told the same story from the point of view of Scarlett O'Hara’s slaves, who were glad to be rid of her.
kJlVE TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965
W7JLX TIL slaves brought to America on 1859 in the Clotilda founded after the Civil War the city of Africatown, Alabama, retaining their West African culture until the 1950s
QOEd TIL North Korea Owes Sweden €300 million for 1,000 Volvos It Stole 40 Years Ago