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TIL that the US president's Cadillac One (aka The Beast) is equipped with 8 inch thick bulletproof doors, an oxygen system, a night-vision camera, tear-gas bombs, a shotgun, and pints of the president’s blood type.

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6EO9X TIL: Vincent Price, the legendary Hollywood film icon, and his wife Mary, were such food connoisseurs, that in 1965 they co-wrote a best selling cookbook titled "A Treasury Of Great Recipes". His daughter Victoria stated, "He had an omnivorous appetite for life and for food."
8arEG TIL: Some groups in Thailand train monkeys to collect coconuts sold internationally as the job is dangerous and difficult for ill-equipped humans. The practice has raised ethical concerns.
5Yj9R TIL the man who found Forrest Fenn's treasure is being sued by another treasure hunter who claims she solved the puzzle first and he hacked her phone. She had been searching in New Mexico and the treasure was found in Wyoming.
KOXnB TIL Water firms in the UK are still using Divining Rods to search for leaks and pipes.
1aAW7 TIL that Facebook shut down a pair of its artificial intelligence robots, nicknamed Alice and Bob, after they started talking in their own created language.