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TIL The original voice actress for South Park, who voiced pretty much all the female characters, killed herself in 1999

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QJJ9p TIL about Friendship 500, a floating McDonalds made for Expo 86 in Vancouver
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j6wgp TIL Ford's first car, a 1903 Model A with an original price of $850, sold at auction in 2012 for $264,000. This specific car was the third 1903 Model A made by Ford and is the oldest known surviving Ford car. The buyer was William Clay Ford Jr, the great-grandson of Ford founder Henry Ford.
WkYg4 TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.
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