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TIL when Dr. Joyce Brothers was a contestant on The $64,000 Question the show’s sponsor Revlon tried to get rid of her because she didn’t wear makeup on air. She was asked increasingly obscure questions but was able to answer them all correctly and became the show’s first woman to win the top prize.

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XED8 TIL every Chili’s restaurant has one upside down picture hanging in it, and it’s a challenge to customers to find it.
neKDP TIL there was a successful "real life" demonstration of driverless automobile technology over 60 years ago in Lincoln, Nebraska. Broader implementation stalled due to a lack of interest from other states in funding the necessary infrastructure.
Egao TIL there are two Jews left in Afghanistan, they both hate one another and therefore each have their own private synagogue.
rRM8M TIL that there is a bird called bittern that defends itself by mimicking a stick!
5YXMk TIL that the Canadian province of Manitoba, fed up with Ontario laws restricting the cross-provincial sale of eggs, copied the Ontario laws, sued itself all the way up to the Supreme Court, and got those laws deemed unconstitutional in ALL provinces.