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TIL LBJ had an amphibious car on his Texas ranch. He would drive new visitors around in it, then pretend the brakes had gone out and drive into a pond.

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VBQpm TIL when the show "Cops" was originally developed, the idea was to have the cameras follow the police officers home to get insight into their personal lives
x6joo TIL that whisky company Diageo puts aside barrels of maturing whiskey for its pension plan
BgX5L TIL that movement of the tides causes a loss of energy in the Earth-Moon system. In the last 620 million years the period of rotation of the Earth (length of a day) has increased from 21.9 hours to 24 hours; in this period the Earth-Moon system has lost 17% of its rotational energy.
p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.
d85RK TIL that in the 80's, Canadian retailer Zellers used to wholesale pirate Atari 2600 games, only minimally changing box art and names