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TIL that when actor Rod Cameron divorced in 1960, he soon remarried ... to his ex-wife's mother.

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gMnjX TIL when the 1957 Lotus Seven was introduced, it came as a self-assembly kit to avoid car taxation of the day. As the tax rebate didn't apply to kits that came with an assembly manual, Lotus bundled theirs with a disassembly manual that was supposed to be followed in reverse.
dDxb8 TIL A 2007 independent panel found that alcohol is "freely used in crew quarters," where astronauts are quarantined at the Kennedy Space Center in the three days before launch. NASA policy prohibits any drinking in the 12 hours before an astronaut flies a training jet
KYQyG TIL France's national ensign (flag) used to be white at various points between the 1600s and the early 1800s.
yQgAl TIL through magnetic imaging resonance you can determine the intentions of another person before they make an action. Real world Minority Report
ge88 TIL of the “Navy eReader Device”, or NeRD, an e-reader developed by the United States Navy’s General Library Program for use aboard U.S. Navy submarines