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TIL in 1982, three guys lived on a billboard as part of a radio contest. The last one to come down would win an $18,000 mobile home. The contest became international news, one of the contestants was caught selling weed, and it went on for so many months that it had to be ended with two winners.

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Oog9g TIL Mike Tyson loved keeping pigeons as a kid and the first fight he ever got into was when a thug ripped the head off one of his birds. He said, “The pigeon was the first thing I ever loved in my life. I don’t know why, I feel ridiculous trying to explain it. Pigeons are just so much like people.”
pjP4 TIL that Tito, tired of Stalin’s attempts to assassinate him, openly wrote: “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. (…) If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
4XrPa TIL that a material's melting point is the same as its freezing point. These are just different terms for the same thing, it just depends on whether energy is being removed from a substance (freezing) or if energy is being added to a substance (melting).
xVMxk TIL that as compensation for claiming New Amsterdam (New York) from the Dutch in 1667, the English relinquished claims to the disputed South American territory of Suriname. Today, Suriname is the only independent country in the Americas where most people speak Dutch.
8mpL TIL electric vehicles predate the model T, and in the year 1900, comprised 38% of cars on the road