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TIL: Jacques Cousteau's Calypso had a 1000 litre stainless steel wine tank.

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4XOv5 TIL that in 1973, Johnny Carson created a fake joke about a nationwide toilet paper shortage, unintentionally causing a real shortage of toilet paper across the country.
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