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TIL Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to weed

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yLWw TIL NBC’s Dateline aired a segment showing gas tanks on General Motors pickup trucks tended to explode on even low-speed impacts. G.M. responded with an investigation showing that Dateline had rigged explosions in the show by affixing model-rocket engines to a truck’s underbody.
LQyXr TIL Michigan J. Frog was inspired by Ol' Rip, a Horned Toad who was placed in a time capsule in 1897 to see if Horned Toads can hibernate. 31 years later, the capsule was opened and a live horned toad was presented and was a national sensation.
MeGkW TIL that during Rock Springs Massacre in 1885 a mob of white coal miners in Wyoming attacked Chinese miners, many of whom they burned alive. Others were “scalped, mutilated, branded, decapitated, dismembered, and hanged,” killing at least 28. Sixteen men were arrested, but none were indicted.
BLdD TIL that the geometric texture on scifi spaceships is called Greeble
N778M TIL the grandson of the inventor of Spam is a well known session guitarist who played on Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. His name is Smokey Hormel.