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TIL that even though it was described as a "mishmash of colors" the orange paint of the General Lee matches exactly a tone of orange called TNT Express, which belongs to a European shipping company and is used throughout its entire fleet.

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ADvX7 TIL in the first test of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, the connection crashed after the first two of five characters were transmitted
4jbb Til there was a man who built a 40-Foot “Spite Fence” around his neighbor’s house.
RJj1 TIL there’s a shot-for-shot live action “Toy Story” remake using actual toys and people
jNWMQ TIL the reason why an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel mid flight in '83, NASA lost its Mars orbiter in '99, and a roller coaster car derailed on Space Mountain in '03 were due to confusion in working with both imperial and metric systems.
j680Q TIL that 53.5% of the funding for Tor, comes from the U.S. government.