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TIL most car commercials feature a motion capture vehicle, the Blackbird, instead of the car seen in ads.

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ODy4 TIL: that the “women make 77c on a man’s dollar” stat is obtained by averaging out a random group of men versus a random group of women. When adjusted for age, same career and same experience, women earn about 95.9-92.2c on a man’s dollar. (pg 29 for statistics)
ddwZ TIL the astronomer most responsible for having Pluto reclassified wrote a memoir about it called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”.
8aNAX TIL Al Capone Was Paroled After Only 8 Years, Lived Out His Life At His Florida Mansion
16kbD TIL film score composer Hans Zimmer played synths in the first ever music video that was aired on MTV (video killed the radio star)
pY8RQ TIL morning exercise Radio Taiso was brought to Japan from America and is now broadcast daily across Japan