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awDXy TIL President Grover Cleveland developed mouth cancer during his second term. Fearing news of this might cause financial panic, he underwent secret surgery on his friend’s yacht off the coast of Long Island, under the cover story of being on a 4-day fishing trip.
b9aj9 TIL Lamborghini doesn't have a test track. They simply test their cars on public farm roads in the Italian countryside.
ZB6G TIL that in 1970, Orville Redenbacher paid a marketing firm $13,000 to come up with a name for his fledgling popcorn company. Their advice was to call it “Orville Redenbacher’s”.
w9NW TIL when puppies play, young boy dogs often let the girls win, so as to entice the females to play with them.
oR98o TIL that an airplane on a treadmill that keeps ground speed at 0 can still take off due to its engines generating enough air flow to create lift