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TIL rapper Too Short managed to sell 50,000 copies of his album "Born to Mack" from the trunk of his car.

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VBoLG TIL that Jules Verne's Mysterious Island was based on Frisland, an island that appeared on maps from the 16th to the 18th century. Frisland was a hoax contrived by a pair of brothers who devised a culture reminiscent of the societies of Gulliver's Travels.
X00p8 TIL that Spongebob Squarepants is the species of sponge known as Aplysina fistularis or "yellow tube sponge"
nW1X9 TIL in 1950, a baby elephant named Tuffi was put on a suspended monorail in Wuppertal Germany as a stunt. She panicked, burst out of a carriage window, and fell 12 metres into the river below. Tuffi survived the fall with only minor injuries and lived for another 39 years.
bnRN TIL During the Cold War, America was inspired to build a more efficient interstate system as a way to provide a speedy evacuation route in the event of nuclear war.
16BDV TIL in 1906, Teddy Roosevelt became the first sitting US President to make a foreign trip when he visited the Panama Canal