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TIL nearly 2/3 of Americans live in a “constitution-free zone”

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xVnE0 TIL the 1975 Ford Custom/LTD not only was the 8th most reliable car in the Consumer Reports surveying of '75 cars, it also was more reliable than any import that wasn't a Toyota or Mercedes-Benz.
0aMN TIL that the ice cream cone was first created at the 1904 World’s Fair. An ice cream cart ran out of dishes to serve ice cream, so the neighboring waffle-maker rolled the waffles into cones to serve the ice cream in.
LBr TIL in 1959 a pilot ejected from his jet at 45,000 feet and spent the next 40 minutes being thrusted up and down inside of a thunderstorm.
6EAPJ TIL in the 1960's the Sugar Industry funded and selectively picked skewed studies that helped blame saturated fat with causing heart disease instead of sugar
N7aMJ TIL a video recording of the last moments aboard the columbia shuttle was found in the debris undamaged