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TIL the first mass-produced bicycle for women was called the Ladies’ Psycho

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XEjb8 TIL in order not to pay gas guzzler taxes for its US-made fleet, Ford made the Crown Victoria in Canada, so that it would count towards the imported fleet, where its low MPG rating was balanced out by the fuel-efficient Festiva.
7rpaL TIL In 1985 a drug smuggler jettisoned 40 kilograms (76 pounds) of cocaine from his airplane over Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest. A black bear (later dubbed 'Pablo EskoBear') found and ate ALL of the cocaine and died of an inconceivably massive overdose.
v1ovR TIL A Japanese franchise plays certain songs in their stores if it's busy, if it's raining, if there is a robbery, or if there is a bomb
K5D4 TIL James Cameron got the go-ahead to make ‘Aliens’ by writing the word 'Alien’ on a board, then adding an ’s’ and turning it into a dollar sign.
GAwBN TIL Using machine learning, researchers have been able to decode what fruit bats are saying--surprisingly, they mostly argue with one another.