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TIL the oldest running car, built in 1884, sold in 2011 for $4.6 million. “La Marquise” - top speed: 38 mph (61 km/h) - runs on coal, wood, and bits of paper, taking 30–40 minutes to build up enough steam to drive.

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4j4R TIL that some orthodox Jewish communities have volunteer ambulance services which survive solely on donations. They don’t bill the patient for transporting them to the hospital, have a faster response time than most ambulance companies, and don’t exclusively service Jews.
mPv TIL the founder of Lamborghini tried talking to Enzo Ferrari about improving their cars, but Enzo refused because Lamborghini was just a small tractor maker.
YaOd TIL there is an Orthodox Jewish prayer men say in the morning thanking god for not making them a woman.
DQ0kp TIL Jacques-Louis David, the famous artist who painted Napoleon multiple times, including his crossing of the Alps and his coronation, signed the death warrant for the first husband of Napoleon’s wife
kO1rm TIL that in 2002, a widely-watched live TV special followed a robot as it crawled through a 5" opening in the Great Pyramid of Giza, punched a hole in a door at the end of the passage, and inserted a fiber optic camera into the hole. Behind the door was nothing but a small empty space.