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TIL that NASCAR was formed after Prohibition when out-of-work bootleggers wanted to keep their driving skills sharp through organized races.

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0kwM TIL “The number you have dialed is not in service” was recorded by singer and voice actor, Jane Barbe, and heard by 300 million people per week
KOnkG TIL on 1989, in California, Wilbur and Mary Ellen Tracy opened the Neo-Pagan "Church Of The Most High Goddess", where Mrs. Tracy practised sacred prostitution with her congregants. Both were convicted for pimping and prostitution