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TIL the USS John C. Stennis was named after someone who supported racial segregation and signed the Southern Manifesto.

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KxJa TIL Companies such as General Motors (fronting as National City Lines) bought out companies that operated electric streetcars across the USA and fully replaced them with buses, which were reliant on foreign oil.
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6Aml TIL the late King Olav V of Norway used public transport. He was nicknamed Folkekonge, “The people’s king”.