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TIL Older U.S.A. presidential limousines are at the Henry Ford Museum, but after Sept. 11, 2001, the Secret Service adopted a policy to destroy the limos after they are taken out of service in order to protect their security secrets.

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VBLX4 TIL there is a LARP party in Czechia, where you roleplay contemporary rural Americans
p8K6p TIL that the filmmakers for ‘The Blair Witch Project’ saved money by returning the video camera to Circuit City after they were done filming
XG7P TIL President Reagan was stalked by a man who called himself “Catman,” and who not only sent letters and “close-up photographs of his intended victims,” but also “lots of photos of cats.”
9YZ7D TIL on April 1st, 1993 a San Diego Radio station reported that the space shuttle Discovery had to make an emergency landing at the local airport at 8:30 am. Over 1000 people headed for the landing site to catch a glimpse, crowding the airport and causing traffic jams. It was an April Fools hoax.