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TIL that ¾ of the cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road.

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XZVX TIL Lightning is essential for life on Earth because it creates Nitrates that fertilize plants.
8aod4 TIL that despite Russia's major influential role in geopolitics, the country possesses an economy smaller than South Korea or Canada
9Yl0B TIL that in 1931, a scientist tried to teach a baby chimpanzee human behavior by raising it alongside his human son. The chimpanzee never acquired language skills and the experiment was called off when the human baby began imitating the chimpanzee's vocalizations.
OOQa TIL in 2011 researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois developed a way to hack into voting machines and modify votes from up to half a mile away. They showed that this could be done using $26 worth of electronics and an 8th-grade science education.
Bjbr TIL The Japanese Samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga in the years 1613 through 1620 sailed to Rome via Mexico, where he met the Pope and was made a Roman citizen. It was the last official Japanese visit to Europe until 1862.