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TIL the reason why the top trim Toyota Tundra is named 1794 Edition is because the ranch that used to be on the land Toyota's Texan factory occupies was founded in 1794.

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mx9WM TIL in 2007, São Paulo introduced the Clean City Law. The result was a near-total ban of billboards, digital signs, ostentatious business signs, and advertising on buses and taxis. It turns out that some massive billboards where hiding whole favelas that few knew existed.
djDB TIL the First Aid Kit was invented for railroad surgeons who needed sterile equipment to treat their construction workers.
mx0rR TIL about mobster --"Handsome Johnny" Roselli, who infiltrated Hollywood in the 1920s. He rose up the ranks with Al Capone. He knew everybody,dated movie stars, played golf with studio heads and was buds with Marilyn Monroe. But in 1976 he was rubbed out by a Mafia hitman & stuffed into an oil drum.
GAWNG TIL Queensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in the USA. It contains 29 buildings and 3,142 units for 7,000 people.
YLZB TIL John Travolta, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray all turned down the role of Forrest Gump, which was then played by Tom Hanks.