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TIL Porsche tried to replace its flagship car, the 911, with the bigger, more luxurious 928, but people kept buying the iconic 911. The 911 still hadn’t had a major redesign since its birth in 1963, and only received one in 1998, three years after the 928 went out of production.

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XE9N8 TIL Although Switzerland is considered land locked, they have a Navy because multiple rivers provide access to the sea
J17Q TIL: There is an area of the universe a billion light years across that has virtually nothing in it, not even dark matter.
Y7XZG TIL about the 100 prisoner problem, where a simple strategy can change the likelihood of success from 1 in less than 100 octillion to around 31%.
lo6lB TIL that there is a small café in France that sells coffee to rude customers for €7 while polite customers get coffee for €1.40.
gEQA TIL of Starfish. A 60’s US military experiment designed to see what would happen when a nuke was detonated 250 miles above Earth’s magnetic pole. It resulted in an EMP 900 miles wide, an intense artificial aurora, and a radiation belt that disabled 1/3 of the low orbit satellites and lasted 5 years.