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TIL that the aluminium based Airstream was the only travel trailer builder in America to survive the Great Depression.

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R5MNQ TIL of aphantasia a condition where people are unable to form mental images in their head. People with aphantasia are also less likely to have an inner monologue.
697A7 TIL British Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe paid hitmen to kill his former lover Norman Josiffe in the 1970s
pYA5G TIL Dictator Muammar Gaddafi had a strange obsession with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He had Libya's most famous composer write her a song called "Black Flower in the White House." A photo album full of pictures of her was also found next to his bed by opposition fighters
YpVOW TIL that the 1968 Flu pandemic killed over 1 million people
ZpPKB TIL Earl L. Brewer, Governor of Mississippi from 1912 to 1916, never once made a public campaign speech while running for Governor in 1911.