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TIL that the current T6 generation Ford Ranger was actually developed by Ford Australia 🇦🇺

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ne00B TIL about Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was kept captive for 19 yrs by her mother, Dee Dee, who faked medical conditions that her daughter had in order for her to be seen as a caregiver. Dee Dee is a classic Munchausen syndrome by proxy. After Gypsy had Dee Dee killed, she was sentenced 10yrs in prison
ANo7w TIL about Aaron Swartz, one of the architects of Creative Commons, creator of Internet Archives’ Open Library and founder of Watchdog.net
l7gXA TIL of the 1997Jarrell, Texas "Dead Man Walking" tornado, a slow-moving F5 twister that sat over a subdivision for three full minutes, subjecting it to 260+ mph winds. It erased everything, killed 27 people, plus hundreds of cattle, and blended their remains together unrecognizably.
oKDR TIL that president Lyndon Johnson had an amphibious car and used it to scare people by driving them into a lake screaming about brake failure
x6Zg1 TIL that after Betty White's death, the Smithsonian acquired her WWII AWVS uniform and shoulder bag, which turned out to be a time capsule filled with artifacts of her wartime experience.