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TIL Peter Jackson owns the original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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TIL after being struck by lightning, golfer Lee Trevino was asked if he would do anything different to avoid it. “I’d stand in the fairway with my one iron pointed at the sky,” he said. “Not even God can hit the one iron.”
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TIL about the 1926 Baumes law, a New York statute where anyone convicted of more than three separate felonies would automatically receive life imprisonment, without regard to any extenuating circumstances. By 1930, 23 U.S. states adopted similar laws. Prison riots in NY led to reforms soon after.
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TIL: in 1965, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs were in a limo when Dylan decided to play his new composition, “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window”. Ochs hated it, so Dylan pushed him out the limo and said “You're not a folk singer. You're a journalist."
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TIL that from 1920 to 1946, Hungary was a kingdom with neither a king nor a clear plan about crowning one. For the whole period, the country was ruled by the regent Miklós Horthy.
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TIL that the term “bug” for a software malfunction became popular because it was once (in 1947) traced back to a moth stuck in the system.