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TIL George Washington Carver made a list of 8 cardinal virtues that define a lady or gentleman

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kJWoW TIL, "the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation." is actually nothing more than a myth and Dr. Robert R. Brownlee (man responsible for legend/myth) wrote an essay about it.
LQ5w0 TIL that in 2009 the 90s video game composer and host of Video Games Live, Tommy Tallarico, once got caught smuggling over $100,000 into the USA
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