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TIL The practice of daily shampooing wasn’t a norm in the US until the 1970s and 1980s

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7rVwL TIL that Disneyworld has it's own government. The Reedy Creek Improvement District has two municipalities within itself, Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista. Both allow the Disney Corporation to issue their own building permits and liquor licenses... among other benefits.
e0p5 TIL 60% (50 of 83) of the restaurants that appeared on Kitchen Nightmares have been sold or shutdown.
J1n6m TIL the Intracostal Waterway is a 3,000 miles (4,800 km) federally maintained, navigable toll-free shipping route that runs along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts in the southern and eastern United States
6EerZ TIL of a secret society called Cicada 3301, that has on six occasions posted puzzles and alternate reality games (some lasting years) in an attempt to recruit code breakers from the public.
P11VL TIL in 1965 the first Channel Crossing by car took place, using 2 Amphicars, the first amphibious mass-produced automobiles. They then drove to Frankfurt.