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TIL Motorola invented the car radio, and the company’s name comes from this “Motorized Victrola”

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VB0MD TIL Mangos are in the poison ivy family and the skins have the same chemical (urushiol) on them.
Y7O17 TIL that before WW1, Japan was seriously considering adopting Islam as its national religion until the West gained power and Japan dumped the idea
oRA4K TIL during World War II, the town of Pascagoula, Mississippi, was gripped by fear over a mysterious figure known as the “Phantom Barber.” Residents reported that an intruder would sneak into their homes at night and cut locks of hair from their heads while they slept.
OGl5R TIL in ancient Roman times a pound of lavender flowers was worth the same amount as 50 haircuts from your local barber.
X046j TIL that in Ancient Greece, when Cimon was given a sentence of 'starvation till death', his daughter, Pero, kept him alive by breastfeeding her own father