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TIL King Charles III drives an Aston Martin that runs on Wine and Cheese.

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4kgLX TIL Tele Vue founder Al Nagler designed optics for visual simulators used to train astronauts in piloting the Gemini spacecraft and the Apollo Lunar Module
OBBg TIL Jackie Gleason considered suing the makers of The Flintstones for ripping off The Honeymooners but he didn’t want the bad publicity from being “the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air.”
6E7M7 TIL Most of your bodies serotonin (90%) is produced within your digestive track not your brain.
vWNx TIL Optimus Prime has died more than 25 times in the last 30 years across comics, cartoons, movies, and video-games. It has become a running joke among Transformer fans.
YpP7W TIL in May 1980, after blood tests found a significant portion of Love Canal residents suffered chromosome damage from toxic waste buried under their homes, homeowners, upset over lack of federal action, held two EPA officials hostage. This action spurred the federal Superfund program to be passed.