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TIL the United States ranks 3rd in liking the United States
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TIL in 1930 two brothers created the first car radio which was called a “motorized victrola” which they shortened to Motorola.
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TIL there was a rumor in the 1960s that Japan made products in a town called Usa which were then exported to the US with the label "MADE IN USA" to make them appear as if they were made in the US.
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TIL Tom Jones turned down a lead role in a movie opposite Joan Collins because his script dropped too many F-bombs
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TIL about a 4-foot, hunchbacked, Quaker dwarf named Benjamin Lay, who was a fierce anti-slavery abolitionist. Known as the "Quaker Comet," he used to troll religious elders during meetings and stage bizzare feats of anti-slavery performance art.
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TIL of John Michell, a scientist of the 1700s, described as being “so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later.” -the first person to propose the existence of black holes and much more.