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TIL that a TV station in Wyoming used a legal loophole to move to Delaware in 2013

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Bg01b TIL that some UPS trucks use the headlights from the Oldsmobile Alero
78LaM TIL About Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Grandson of Queen Victoria and nephew to Kings Edward VIII and George VI. A member of German nobility he was a high ranking Nazi official and avoided imprisonment due to ill health and the intercession of some British Royals.
bV40 TIL that Boeing plane models are always 7X7 not because of the Lucky number 7 but because the 700 division was in charge of transport aircraft after WWII. They started with 707 and kept the pattern from there.
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loaNG TIL President Lyndon Johnson an owner of the Aphicar loved playing pranks on his passengers. It involved barrelling the vehicle down a hill into a lake and exclaiming to his passengers that the brakes had malfunctioned, while they had no idea the car was designed to float in water.