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TIL Half of Consumers in America Don’t Trust Advertising

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1awe4 TIL in 2008 a man bought a used car and registered it in his girlfriends name without her knowing. When they broke up one year later he parked it at Chicago’s O'Hare Airport racking up more than $100,000 in parking ticket fines in her name.
oB4GA TIL Richard Nixon could have used his birthright as a Quaker to avoid the draft, but chose to enlist anyway.
ygv8 TIL that “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, a movie about a golf game, is actually a modern-day rendition of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient sacred Hindu text.
0wyVR TIL about Peter Conover Hains, a US army officer who served in the Civil War, the Spanish American War, and World War I, the latter after being recalled to active-duty at the age of 77.
Zawv TIL Mariusz Pudzianowski, 5 Time Worlds Strongest Man (the only man to ever acheive the title 5 times), also has a Masters in International Relations, and once went to jail for stopping a mob boss from beating up a young man.