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X0rn8 TIL Comedian Steven Wright is an Oscar winner
Br1yb TIL Older U.S.A. presidential limousines are at the Henry Ford Museum, but after Sept. 11, 2001, the Secret Service adopted a policy to destroy the limos after they are taken out of service in order to protect their security secrets.
j67vQ TIL The first techno album, 1983's Enter by Cybotron, used earlier singles that had been financed by Richard “3070” Davis's army disability pay. Davis, who had fought in the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, started Cybotron after meeting Juan Atkins in music class at a Detroit community college.
a8nMM TIL that "Ding Dong School," the first U.S. preschool TV show, was canceled when its star refused to let the network broadcast ads for BB guns.
e0kl5 TIL of Katie Brumbach, a 20th century strongwoman who met her husband of 52 years after he took her on in the circus ring; her father was offering a 100 gold marks to anyone who could defeat his daughter. An aspiring acrobat named Max Heymann took her on, but lost. He then fell in love with her.