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TIL sperm whale oil was used in cars until the 1970's

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mE0o TIL that when the inventor of Doritos died, friends and family tossed Doritos in his grave.
jN61n TIL that electric cars had some success 100 years ago circa 1910. It was Thomas Edison's first car, and Jay Leno has one too.
x6E8D TIL that USAF pilot Thomas Mantell was the first person killed in a UFO pursuit.
0APj TIL American Sign Language is most closely related to French Sign Language because a British institution was unwilling to share their methods.
VBWP8 TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take back an occupied Alaskan Island. Unfortunately, Canadians and Americans mistook each other for Japanese and open fired, killing 92 soldiers and wounding over 200 others.