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TIL The university of WV has had pod cars on a track that transport people around their campus for decades

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rNBGy TIL The NIDA deliberately mislead the public for years about the dangers of mdma by promoting retracted studies that used lethal doses of methamphetamine instead.
BgB4W TIL Archimedes stated the diameter of the sun is about thirty-times the diameter of the moon and not larger and the earlier astronomers Eudoxus declared the sun about 9x larger than moon
dmMd TIL Liam Neeson worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer before being discovered as an actor
d8VKQ TIL that Singapore has been physically growing its borders for years by literally importing sand from other countries. Since independence, Singapore has increased its physical landmass by more than 20% already resulting in the complete disappearance of 24 islands in the Indonesian archipelago.
QJ9QX TIL Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013) are known as 'The Three Flavors of Cornetto Trilogy" written and directed by Edgar Wright. Each Cornetto flavor (color) represents the themes: Red = blood/gore (Shaun), Blue = cop movie (Fuzz), Green = sci/fi (World's End)