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wLYG7 TIL the best man’s original purpose was to serve as an accomplice in case the bride needed to be kidnapped from disapproving parents.
4X8Vb TIL that in the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, Jaguar fitted $300k diamonds to fronts of two of their Formula 1 cars to advertise “Ocean’s Twelve”. One of the cars crashed on the first lap, and the diamond, uninsured due to the nature of the stunt, was, and still remains, lost.
kJLbm TIL that Henry "Hap" Arnold, who became the first US General of the Airforce in 1949, was taught to fly by the Wright brothers
8ZvX TIL actor J.K. Simmons is the voice of the yellow M&M and has been for over 20 years.
D1LAP TIL There was an Anti-Mask League, an organization formed to protest the requirement for people in San Francisco to wear masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic.