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TIL If all new cars produced were powered by lithium batteries, the world would run out of lithium in ~30 years.

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LZOZ TIL that Avocados are optimally adapted to be eaten and digested by an animal far larger than any alive today in the Americas. It is theorized they originally evolved their current form to allow their seeds to be spread by animals like the extinct giant ground sloth.
R7WGj TIL that since 1950, Oscar winners or their heirs are not allowed to sell their Oscar statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for $1. However pre 1950 statuettes are up for grabs. Michael Jackson bought the Gone With The Wind Best Picture Oscar for $1.5m
5Yxgn TIL that Coco Chanel the iconic French fashion designer and business woman was also a Nazi Spy. Working as a spy, Chanel was directly involved in a plan for the Third Reich to take control of Madrid.
pnee TIL that there is a small community of ethnic Germans living in Jamaica for over 150 years known as Germacians
mxoRy TIL Anni-Fryd Lyngstad, one of the lead singers of the band ABBA, was a child of a Nazi soldier during the occupation of Norway as part of Nazi breeding experiments