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TIL that in the 1974 movie The Klansman, O.J. Simpson highjacks a Ford Bronco to escape from the police, foreshadowing events in 1994 (beginning around 67:14 mark)

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A9xw TIL The Gulf of Tonkin incident which the U.S. Government used as an excuse to start the Vietnam War according to 2005 declassified papers never actually happened.
ggMy TIL that the Venus Fly Trap is only native to one area in the world: Wilmington, North Carolina.
ADoja TIL that US territories like Puerto Rico get to vote in primaries and caucuses to help political parties choose nominees for the presidential election despite not being able to vote in the presidential election itself
WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”
ZpYpa TIL airlines make the boarding pass chaotic by design, so people will pay to get an easier boarding process.