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TIL that the least ticketed car in the US is the Dodge Viper.

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E1WAx TIL the "horned sign" is an ancient hand gesture meant to either ward off, or curse someone with, the "evil eye", or malocchio in Italian. Ronnie James Dio re-popularized the gesture as the "sign of the horns" when he joined Black Sabbath in 1979, having originally learned it from his grandmother.
X0meQ TIL King George III never visited Hanover despite being its Elector and later, King, and never left southern England in his entire life.
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