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TIL that the 100 year old Morgan Motor Company is still making their sports cars with wooden frames.

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9wAO7 TIL that during WWII, the British diverted so much Indian textile production that civilians raided graveyards for clothes. Some people couldn’t work because they didn’t have clothes; others locked themselves in a room until it was their turn to wear the one piece that they shared with others.
VM0m TIL: Steven Seagal was choked unconscious on a movie set by “Judo” Gene LeBelle, and Seagal shit himself.
BJ4x TIL Jesse Jackson, Jr. and his wife were sentenced to jail for using $750,000 in campaign money for over 3000 personal purchases that included a Michael Jackson fedora and cashmere capes.
X00lk TIL Christina, the woman depicted in Andrew Wyeth's famous painting 'Christina's World,' had a neurodegenerative disease that paralyzed her from the waist down. Stubborn and self-reliant, she resisted the idea of using a wheelchair or crutches, instead preferring to crawl or drag herself.
yQW7M TIL at 107 years old, the original "man in the monster suit" who played Godzilla is still alive.