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TIL Americans don't buy personalised cars like Japanese and Europeans

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J75l TIL giant camels roamed Canada’s High Arctic about 3.5 million years ago
RGr8 TIL that the deadliest blizzard in history took place February 1972, in Iran. Up to 26 feet (7.9m) of snow fell over a week in some regions and approx. 4,000 people died.
Ooyeg TIL about Pierre Andre Latreille, a French entomologist who was meant to be executed during the French revolution, but was released after discovering a rare beetle species (Necrobia ruficollis) in his prison cell.
9w6Er TIL the song title "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly came about when vocalist Doug Ingle wrote the song while drunk, and when he played it for drummer Ron Bushy, his drunken slurring caused the words "in the Garden of Eden" to be interpreted as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Bushy.
yQyya TIL around 1980 a man named Denis Hope have sold plots of land on the moon to notable people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and even former president George H.W Bush, he claims the UN outer space treaty doesn't negate an individual claiming ownership for the moon.