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TIL in 1900 around a third of all vehicles on the road in the United States were electric.

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mknx TIL: The “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. It got its name from children slurring the ending of the alphabet song together so “and per se and” became “ampersand”
n5yY TIL that the “Wa” in Wario and Waluigi isn’t an upturned M, it’s actually a portmanteu of Mario and Luigi’s name and the Japanese adjective warui which means “bad”, literally translating to “bad Mario” or “bad Luigi”.
xVvvo TIL there are millions of American citizens living in American territories that don't have the right to vote for their President, among other things.
4XgJ5 TIL Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi has a sensory condition known as synesthesia where he associates music with color and vice versa.
60dl TIL a massive solar flare missed the Earth by nine days on July 23rd 2012. Estimated cost of damage was $2.7 trillion dollars, and estimated recovery time was four to ten years.