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TIL that Zooey Deschanel is in an old The Offspring video

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ZpZaD TIL In 1947 a man named Art Lacey bet his friend $5 he couldn’t buy a retired B-17 and turn it into a gas station. After a wild journey including a plane crash, alcohol smuggling, permit skirting, and a cross country trip, he won that bet and it stayed in place for more than six decades
n5ed TIL in 1962, French explorer Michael Siffre spent two months in complete isolation buried in a cave below a glacier. His sense of time collapsed but his body continued to maintain a daily rhythm.
a84AJ TIL that despite only releasing in 2016, the Italian movie Perfect Strangers has already been remade 24 times in different languages, but there is still no English adaptation
vPpbr TIL about the National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, a particularly dire warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina could bring. It included the warning, "PERSONS EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK."
ZeRp TIL due to a hack, Google Maps shows a shop called “Edward’s Snow Den” in the rear of the White House