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TIL that John Steinbeck once said of the Model T Ford: “Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than about the clitoris”

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4X0JR TIL a 28-yr-old Welsh man with a "no regrets" tattoo partying in Vegas in a bachelor party ended up at the Hoover Dam. He reported thinking: "fuck it! I'm going for a swim." His friends cheered as he swam across the Hoover Dam reservoir which luckily had 9 of its 10 turbines off. He was fined $330.
neej7 TIL Christine Jorgensen, a former Army private from the Bronx, was an American trans woman who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.
YpORA TIL that not only is it true that cockroaches can survive decapitation for a week or more but ALSO their heads can carry on moving on their own, waving their antennae back and forth for several hours.
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