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TIL The Chevy Cavalier was imported into Japan and re-branded a Toyota

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6EVe7 TIL that the length of a music single was determined by the weight-driven pulley system on a 1920's recording machine called the Scully Lathe. The pulley allowed approximately three and a half minutes to record before a 100lb weight hit the floor, thus determining the length of a single to this day.
gArX TIL that in 1861, Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italy’s independence, volunteered his services to President Abraham Lincoln and was offered a Major General’s commission in the U.S. Army. His sole condition: that the war’s objective be declared as the abolition of slavery.
XE0rX The king cobra, with its size, speed, and neurotoxic venom, is a force to be reckoned with. Join National Geographic Explorer Sandesh Kadur as he explains the preferred meal of “the snake that is a nightmare to other snakes.”
e0074 TIL that the famous Disney signature you see at the beginning of the movies is not Walt Disney’s actual signature, it was made by Disney Co.’s marketing team in the 80’s- years after Disney’s death.
e0eW5 TIL more than 1 in 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence had made false confessions; researchers say they occur as a result of police using force, threat, exhaustion, hunger, lies, and intimidation during interrogations.