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TIL NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt had a Confederate flag bumper sticker on his truck. When his black housekeeper told him that it made her uncomfortable, he immediately scraped it off.

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jNoOX TIL since the Middle Ages a "knacker man" was a person responsible for the removal of animal carcasses from private farms or public highways and rendering the collected carcasses into by-products. It was considered a disreputable occupation. They were also commissioned by the courts as executioners.
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