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TIL Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history, credited with 309 kills during WWII

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LQ65m TIL NASA worked on the Toyota Prius to determine if the unintended acceleration problem from the late 2000s and early 2010s was a problem with the car's computer systems.
wLLYJ TIL The most environmentally friendly KFC/Taco Bell is located in Northampton, MA. It uses solar for heat, harvests rainwater for irrigation, recycles waste (including cooking oil), and composts.
Y7G9G TIL that contrary to expectations most free people of color lived not in the North but in the South, the Upper South specifically, prior to the American Civil War
D1oAJ TIL A novice lensmaker was the first person to directly observe human sperm cells, by looking at his own under a microscope. He is now considered the father of microbiology.
p8B8p TIL young eggplants look like eggs, which is where they got their name