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TIL that the last car to have a cassette deck come standard was the Lexus SC430, in 2010.

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VMgnk TIL ruts leftover from the wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trial, are still visible today.
P1GE TIL in the 50s physicians performed accurate pregnancy tests by injecting urine from the supposedly pregnant women into a frog. If the frog produced eggs within 24 hrs the test was positive.
R7VW8 TIL The meeting of presidents President Taft and Díaz in Mexico in 1909 was the first between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico. Because both presidents were bilingual there was no need for interpreters. No one else attended the meeting where they spent 20 minutes alone
YXE7 TIL Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins, but broke it off because she couldn’t get it out of her head that he was Hannibal Lector. Verified by her in a NPR: Wait Wait interview
Rop6 TIL a sly foodie convinced upper class Americans not to ever wash their salad bowls. The idea was that the dressing would cure the wooden bowl over time and make better and better salads. The real result was a rancid, smelly bowl. The practice continued for thirty years.