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TIL there was a car that set a Guiness World Record in 1975 with over 376 MPG

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EgDKW TIL Justice Frankfurter disliked Chief Justice Vinson to such a degree that when the issue of segregation came before the Court and Chief Justice Vinson, a segregationist, suddenly died; Frankfurter remarked on it as: "the first solid piece of evidence I've ever had that there really is a God"
ZlB4 TIL Sam Raimi director of “The Evil Dead” series and the “Spiderman” Trilogy and “Drag me to Hell” always has his car a 1973 Oldsmobile Yellow Delta 88 Nicknamed “The Classic” in every movie he films.
neNZP TIL When the U.S. Half-Cent was discontinued in 1857 for not having enough buying power, it was worth about the same as a modern U.S. Dime
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yQDbM TIL A battery has been ringing a bell for 180 years and we don’t know what its made of