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TIL There were 5 kings of Hawaii called Kamehameha
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TIL about Alexander Winton, who built and sold the first American-made gasoline car on March 24, 1898. The public was skeptical. "To advocate replacing the horse, which had served man through centuries, marked one as an imbecile."
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TIL that the earliest voice recording (made in 1860) could not be played back until 2008
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TIL of Nyotaimori, the Japanese practice of eating sushi off naked women
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TIL Only one woman, Mary Edwards Walker, has received the Medal of Honor, and her award was temporarily rescinded.
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TIL, the movie line, “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain,” delivered by replicant Roy Batty as he neared the end of his life in the movie Blade Runner, were improvised by actor Rutger Hauer.