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TIL Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibian car which he drove into lakes while screaming that his brakes where malfunctioning.

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0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them
PY5KE TIL though dogs are known for their powerful sense of smell compared to humans, we beat dogs in sense of taste. A human tongue contains 9,000 taste buds, dogs have only around 1,700.
74mx TIL One of the Largest moths in the world, The Atlas Moth, has no mouth in its adult form. Once it emerges from its cocoon it only has a few days to live before starving to death.
xY7o TIL Steve McQueen’s infidelity saved his life. He was supposed to attend the dinner party where the Manson family murdered Sharon Tate and others, but skipped it after he “ran into a chickie”.
a8M8L TIL about the Zeitpyramide. An almost ten meter high pyramide being built with a rate of one brick every ten years in the German town Wembing. The construction was undertaken i 1993 and is scheduled for completion in the year 3183.