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TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954

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XWVX TIL that Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, has a son named Dick Smothers Jr, who is a male porn star. He goes by his legal name.
7rXrp TIL that Mr. Potato Head started out as only plastic body parts intended to stick into real vegetables, and that the iconic plastic potato was only introduced after parents complained about kids playing with rotting vegetables
V09m TIL In the Vietnam War, the US military produced recordings of ghostly voices and eerie sounds to play to the Vietcong, who believed that if a body wasn’t buried, the person’s soul would wander the Earth forever
wk7J TIL the creator of Budweiser had a few drops of the beer placed on the tongues of every one of his newborn sons just hours after birth. They tasted Budweiser before their own mother’s milk.
PKgE TIL that Hilter’s bloodline is almost extinct as his five remaining relatives have made a verbal pact to never have children.