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TIL that Veronica Lake had a pilot's license which she used to fly from Los Angeles to New York when she left her husband Andre DeToth in the airplane she bought for him.

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9Ym1Q TIL That in the 1930s, the US spent $300.000 ($5,5 million adjusted for inflation) to built massive car with the goal to cross Antarctica. Only to discover upon arrival that the tyres didn't work in the snow, and the whole thing was abandoned after 140 km (driven in reverse).
KOJRQ TIL Max Brooks, author of World War Z and son of Mel Brooks, is dyslexic. Brooks' mother, Anne Bancroft, put her career on hold to educate her son, making audio cassettes for all his assigned readings. Brooks thanked his mother, saying, "not only did my mother give me my life, she saved my life."
v1754 TIL The actor who used to play Gaston at Disney World killed himself accidentally by attempting to shoot fireworks off of his head.
e0m4 TIL the First Blood (Rambo) book ends with Rambo committing suicide. This ending was filmed for the movie but decided against.
p8PKN TIL two right-wing political advisors, Lyn Nofziger and Frank Mankiewicz, convinced President Reagan to halt metrication in the US by dissolving the US Metric Board, effectively killing the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.