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TIL The second incarnation of CBS Corporation was actually the legal successor of the original Viacom

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oRMwW TIL in 1977, musician Jimmy Buffett was driving to Key West on the Seven Mile Bridge when the bridge got stuck in the open position causing a 3-hour delay to fix it. To kill time, he wrote the song "Margaritaville" while sitting on the hood of his car.
WkLA TIL that the Cherokee were in a process of voluntary adoption of American culture, private property, agriculture and even developed a writing system and drafted a constitution inspired by the US. They fought side by side with Andrew Jackson who would later sign the Indian Removal Act
oRy8L TIL that the 18th century Badminton Cabinet is the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold at $36.7 million (2004). It is a Florentine ebony chest, inlaid with hard and semiprecious stones commissioned in 1726 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, at the age of 19
VBkYG TIL the U.S Army once designed an anti armor grenade that would be the same size and shape of a football so US soldiers knew how to sling it and the prototype was built using a hollowed out nerf ball.
YGyG TIL the fax machine was invented before the telephone