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TIL that some UPS trucks use the headlights from the Oldsmobile Alero

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X1EP TIL A man raised his arm for 38 years without EVER putting it down.
jNrKp TIL Rockstar Games thought it was so important to include the song "Walk The Night" in GTA IV, that they hired a private investigator to look up the relatives of Delaney (who died in 2003) so they could find whoever holds the rights of the song now in order to make a licensing deal.
jd8v TIL the person most directly responsible for the scale of tragedy of the Titanic was a radio operator who told the closest ship to shut up after it radioed iceberg warnings. As a result the ship shut off its radio. It would easily have arrived in time to save everyone on board.
PYnlG TIL the Bramble Cay Melomys is among the first mammals to disappear because of failure to adapt in the modern era. Some time between 2009 and 2014 the last of this species died, probably drowning in a storm surge on an island off the coast of Australia where it had thrived for thousands of years.
wbA1 TIL that Fred Phelps was excommunicated from the Westboro Baptist Church before his death for having a change of heart about his religious beliefs and acknowledging the ‘Equality House,’ a local LGBT support organization, as “good people.”