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TIL Tailfins for cars only stuck around for a little over a decade. It started first as pointy little nubs and then as big fins peaking in 1959 with Cadillac producing the most iconic pair of tailfins ever

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P1bVJ TIL of Laura Jackson Arnold sister of Confederate general stonewall jackson was a staunch and unapoligetic supporter of the Union, while her brother became one of the most beloved generals in the Confederate Army. Their relationship was destroyed by the war, and they never saw each other again.
VMob8 TIL that one survivor from the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 is still alive. he recalls that "'suddenly the air was on fire".
Z9AR TIL that in 2005, some 1,500 sheep jumped off a cliff, in Turkey. Only the first 450 or so were killed, as the remaining animals’ falls were cushioned by the dead bodies below. More recently 50 sheep on their way to slaughter and jumped to their deaths in an unexplained and unprovoked mass suicide.
0w5Qv TIL about the Rihanna curse, when horrible weather in the UK, New Zealand, and Romania coincided with the song Umbrella being the #1 song in those countries
xw85 TIL that Elon Musk wanted the first three Tesla models to spell S-E-X but settled with “S3X” since Ford owns the trademark to “Model E”. After the Model Y is released, the four models will spell “S3XY”.