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TIL Tesla Model S Is Best Selling Car In Norway.

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rNKK0 TIL that the highest-flying living thing on Earth is a type of bacteria called Bacillus stratosphericus, which can be found floating in the air at altitudes of up to 41 kilometers (25 miles)
OG7r6 TIL the tallest mountains on Titan, a moon of Saturn, are all named after places in The Lord of the Rings, with the tallest being Doom Mons, or Mount Doom.
Wb49 TIL when Benjamin Franklin died he left the city of Boston $4000 in a trust to earn interest for 200 years. By 1990 the trust was worth over $5 million and was used to help establish a trade school that became the Franklin Institute of Boston.
Bgy1k TIL that the 100 aircraft employed in The Battle of Britain (1969) were described as the "35th largest air force in the world"
loer7 TIL Liberty University Founder Jerry Falwell Sr. was a segregationist who believed the purple teletubby was intended as a gay role model and blamed the 9/11 attacks on Feminists and Homosexuals for angering God