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TIL about 300 vintage Dodge Chargers were destroyed during the filming of The Dukes of Hazard

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X05lR TIL famous baseball player Arthur Irwin committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1928. When he died, two widows emerged. He had been living a double life and was married to two different women in different states unbeknownst to each other.
4goN TIL that some schools in the Southern United States still hold two separate, segregated proms- one for whites and one for blacks.
R5ZN4 TIL Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
m1vYP TIL that if South Korea enters a state of war, its army becomes subordinated to a US Army general from the Combined Forces Command, not the President or another Korean.
VBwXB TIL: On November 10, 1958, Harry Winston mailed the 45.52-carat Hope diamond in an envelope to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. from New York City. The postage was $2.44 and the $1 million dollar insurance fee was $142.85 ($145.29 total).