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TIL before Mazda was a car company they were car bulbs a trademark of GE

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4XG4a TIL comic Andy Kaufman's 4-F deferment for the draft concluded that Kaufman lived in a fantasy world, disconnected from reality, and if put in the military would "lose his mind". He loved the letter and proudly displayed it as he had purposely treated his psych eval as a high-stakes joke.
5YgZB TIL there are rainforests in Wales as a result of high humidity and stable temperatures. The EU is funding an effort to maintain them by ridding them of invasive species.
yQjrw TIL in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The actress who played Aunt Bethany was the original voice of Betty Boop. This was her last movie.
69j8 TIL that The Learning Channel (TLC) was founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA; it was distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.
QNr9X TIL about the oddly-named "Doomsday Rule" which can (with practice) be used to calculate the weekday of a target date based on the fact that certain days (4/4, 5/9, 6/6...) in any given year all fall on the same day of the week.