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TIL the phrase shit happens was first observed in 1964

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xVe11 TIL a Tennessee magistrate judge once ordered a woman to change her son's name from "Messiah" because "The word Messiah is a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ."
Egvxd TIL that the Crying Indian from the Keep America Beautiful ads in the early 1970s was an Italian American.
AvMl TIL The British built an SR-71 like aircraft made from steel mixed with titanium. It didn’t reach its full potential, but provided key research for the supersonic engines used in the much more successful Concorde airliner.
DQV8e TIL that 11-year old Ted Danson and his friends chopped down a bunch of billboards around Flagstaff, AZ, because they obstructed views of nature. He was caught when his father, a museum curator, learned that billboards for the Museum of Northern Arizona were spared.
roXW TIL in 1930 two brothers created the first car radio which was called a “motorized victrola” which they shortened to Motorola.