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TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car which he would use to prank his guests by driving into a lake while screaming about brake failure

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5mQn TIL Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Coppola) changed his last name at the beginning of his career in order to avoid any favoritism he might receive as the nephew of the legendary director Francis Ford Coppola (directed “The Godfather”, “The Godfather II”, “Apocalypse Now”, among other movies).
XE7aP TIL - Stan Lee was a WW-II Veteran - Enlisted after Pearl Harbor.
4Gjw TIL that Jimmy Carter’s daughter Amy attended majority African American public schools in Washington while he was president, not private schools like the children of most other recent presidents
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