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TIL Renault once sold a model called "Le Car"

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16ADd TIL a Billy Joel biopic called "Piano Man" has been greenlit, but no rights for Joel's music, name/likeness, or life story were granted
6EKLZ TIL about the Burakumin (部落民, "hamlet people"/"village people", "those who live in hamlets/villages"), an outcast group at the bottom of the traditional Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination and ostracism.
R5pVj TIL: 1962: At a school in present-day Tanzania, three girls experience an extremely contagious fit of laughter. Classes are canceled for months.
ye4a TIL The accent that is heard in old American movies is called the Transatlantic accent and was not indicative of the actual spoken accent of that era, but taught in boarding schools and used by actors in movies.
0MpM TIL: Exactly 53 years ago today, the USA used a drugged black bear named “Yogi” to test the first fighter pilot ejection seat at supersonic speeds.