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TIL Gasoline Has a Surprisingly Short Shelf Life

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wLvB8 TIL Stalin had a son who he hated and who was later captured by the nazis. The nazis thought they could use him as a bargaining chip to trade to his father Joseph in return for Nazi generals. In response, Stalin said, "I do not trade generals for soldiers" Stalin's son would later kill himself.
PpGJ TIL In 1939 the New York Times predicted that the television would fail because the average American family would not have enough time to sit around watching it.
0d9nL TIL the Church of Sweden has elections for its synodical assembly, open to all of its members. Political parties are represented in this administration.
QNywE TIL that in South Africa traffic lights are called “robots”
Z5Op TIL the Andromeda galaxy is heading towards us at 250,000 miles per hour. We are expected to collide with it in 4 billion years.