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TIL that Goodyear created colored, light-up tires in the 1960s. However, it never made it into mass-production, one reason being that other drivers drove too dangerously whilst trying to look at the tires.

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69DN8 TIL Contrary to popular belief, baking bread by running electricity through dough was not invented in WWII by Japanese soldiers, that was merely when the process got popularized.
695MX TIL An independent Northern counterfeiter named Samuel C. Upham made so much fake Southern money during the American Civil War that experts think it made up around 1-3% of the total currency supply of the Confederacy.
LQvgr TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy helped police catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer". In 1984, Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer, and that he was revisiting body dump sites, which turned out to be true. Ridgway was arrested in 2001.
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GyV1 TIL: One of the 57 people killed in the 1980 Mt St. Helens explosion was an 83 year old lodge owner named Harry Truman. Just before the 1980 eruption he said ’“If the mountain goes, I’m going with it” He and his 16 cats are presumed to have died in the eruption.