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TIL Vanilla Beans Don’t All Taste Like Vanilla

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WkmnL TIL a Danish ex-Jagercorps operative drove a post-apocalyptic 1979 Camaro through the war-torn streets of Sarajevo to deliver food to starving children during the Yugoslavia War.
M0d8 TIL Liv Tyler has two rock star dads. Until she was 8, she was told that her adoptive father, rock legend, Todd Rundgren, was also her biological dad. After learning she was the daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, she changed her last name and kept Rundgren as her middle name.
dDZj8 TIL Coco Chanel was a Nazi Agent in WWIi Paris
Qjga TIL the first Space Shuttle was to be named “Constitution”, but after a major letter writing campaign by Star Trek fans, its name was affectionately changed to “Enterprise”.
EgkQo TIL Southwest Airlines attempted to use the slogan "Just Plane Smart" which was similar to "Plane Smart," already being used by Stevens Aviation Inc. An exec at Stevens offered to settle it with a winner-take-all arm-wrestling competition. The "Malice in Dallas" event happened on March 20, 1992.