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TIL a bear almost caused a nuclear war

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nmnB TIL the first car to use a rear-view mirror was driven by inaugural Indy 500 winner Ray Harroun to see the cars catching up behind him
99nD TIL that after Kurt Cobain dropped out of high school, he got a job as a janitor, at the very same high school that he dropped out of.
0j6p TIL A World Trade Centre security officer Rick Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures credited with saving many lives. He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, while leading evacuees from the South Tower.
Me90b TIL about Yaupon, a holly bush indigenous to the south-east United States. It was once the most widely consumed caffeinated beverage in the Americas, so popular that the British East India Company deemed it a threat to their control of the tea market.
0mQj TIL that a clinical study on alcoholism that tracked 1,824 participants for 20 years revealed that heavy drinkers outlived non-drinkers, even when accounting for many other variables