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TIL about why so many Jeeps have rubber ducks on their dashboard

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d8WJ8 TIL struggling black model Amylia Dorsey kept getting rejected because she didn't fit the prototypical body type for models. This enraged her rapper boyfriend Sir Mix-A-Lot to write "Baby Got Back" and asked Amylia to be the "OMG Becky" voice we hear in the song.
W7G84 TIL that Häagen-Dazs is an American, not European, company founded in the Bronx in 1960
KJeE TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words written in them than words spoken in an average showing of adult prime-time television.
VB7A4 TIL about "parallel construction" in the US: a law enforcement process of creating a parallel basis for investigation, usually in order conceal that evidence was acquired in violation of the Fourth Amendment (e.g. illegal surveillance)
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