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TIL that the electric car FOMM ONE is designed to float on water in the event of floods and tsunamis.

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9wBpB TIL that the CIA considered making a fake Saddam Hussein sex tape.
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.
kO1nW TIL that William Lee invented a knitting machine in 1589, however Queen Elizabeth I denied him a patent because of her fear that the invention would cause her poor subjects to lose their jobs and become beggars.
rMW TIL Bill Murray was arrested in 1971 for smuggling 9lbs of marijuana through O'Hare Int'l Airport
wl46 TIL in 1996, a black teenager, while marching to protest a KKK rally in Michigan, protected a white man, who had an “SS” tattoo and and a confederate flag shirt, from the attacks of a crowd. She threw herself on him to deflect the mob’s strikes, due to her belief that “nobody deserves to be hurt.”