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TIL The term "Basket Case" comes from quadriplegic WWI soldiers who had to be carried around in a basket

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WAMA TIL There are more payday loan stores in the US than McDonald’s and Taco Bells combined.
YpwAZ TIL in 1966, model Nell Theobald garnered fame after she was attacked by a lion during a BMW photo shoot at the International Automobile Show. She used the money she received in the lawsuit settlement to intensify her obsessive stalking of opera singer Birgit Nilsson, following her around the globe.
W7A5o TIL The Dodge Tomahawk was an "automotive sculpture" sold through the Neiman Marcus catalog about 20 years ago
LkPwv TIL of Larkhall, Scotland, a town which has had its subway change its green signs, as well as had residents try to burn grass, because of sectarianism.
rRKZ4 TIL about Tanya Savicheva, a Russian girl that cronicled in her diary the deaths of all her family members during the siege of Leningrad, ending with "Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left".