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TIL the 1960s some models of Plymouth and Chrysler came with dashboard record players which played seven-inch 45s. The player was called the "Highway Hi-Fi” and it was an absolute failure.

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Bwxb TIL that the tombstone of U.S. Air Force veteran and gay rights activist Leonard Matlovich states this: “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one”
gMNNA TIL Stoicism had a profound impact on Christianity, with some of the central concepts of Stoicism still being used in religious texts today, such as "virtue", "Spirit" and "conscience". Stoicism also invented the idea that sex is just within marriage, for unitive and procreative purposes only.
D1dEV TIL about Chi Chi --American Humane's hero dog of 2018. She lost nearly all four legs — and almost her life after being rescued from a trash bag inside a dumpster. Today, with the help of two sets of prosthetic paws, she uses her sweet demeanor to assist others as a certified therapy dog.
ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.
D4lD TIL Uma Thurman was offered the script for her role as “The Bride” in Kill Bill as a 30th birthday present from Quentin Tarantino.