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TIL that before becoming the mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri was a TV pitchman for car mufflers

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L5r9 TIL that there is a company that makes non-reversing mirrors. Instead of ‘mirroring’ you (your left is the mirror’s left), they show you how you actually appear to others (your left becomes the mirror’s right).
EYeX TIL objections to the formation of the first modern police force included: would be used to arrest opponents of government, stop protests and destroy free speech.
kOJBe TIL Ted Nugent wrote the song Jailbait with lyrics, "I don't care if you're just thirteen," and "Wait a minute officer, Don't put those handcuffs on me, Put them on her and I'll share her with you."
4DNo TIL A&W introduced a burger that was bigger and less expensive than McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but it failed because customers assumed 1/3 was less than ¼.
8jDa TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.