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TIL Kurt Russell was actually in Forrest Gump … as the voice of Elvis Presley

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gr5yW TIL Washington Crossing the Delaware was painted by a German-born artist and the original was destroyed by allied bombing during World War II.
yQ1AJ TIL The Florida Highway Patrol has as a semi truck as a patrol vehicle and occasionally makes traffic stops.
Ypg5x TIL The NASA Space Shuttles operated with 1mb of RAM in five redundant computers. That's less than the average .mp3 file.
Zp9kQ TIL that Joseph Petrosino an NYPD officer, warned President McKinley that there was an assassination plot due to take place against him, in Buffalo New York. McKinley brushed off the warning, and was duly assassinated.
enRk TIL that the Mitsubishi Starion was meant to be called the “Stallion” but was mistranslated to their English speaking counterparts