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TIL that Salvador Dalí Designed the Chupa Chups Logo

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epVM6 TIL Speed Racer was based off the 1964 Elvis movie "Viva Las Vegas". Tatsuo Yoshida, the creator of Mach GoGoGo, stated that the film was the primary inspiration, as well as James Bond films of that time period.
69bLJ TIL that in 1971, three off-duty teenage British soldiers were lured from a Belfast pub and executed by the IRA. The outrage led to protests, a political crisis, and the UK raising the army deployment age to 18.
yx4l TIL There is a bar in London called “The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town” that you can access through a fridge after announcing “I am here to see the Mayor”
vw7R TIL a New York man had his home taken from him, his life threatened by a judge and then ended up mysteriously dead from a head injury shortly after compiling the evidence of this…
a8eQy TIL that when Radio Shack in 1977 planned its first personal computer, the $599 TRS-80, it built 3,500 units. The company had never sold that many of anything at that price, and planned to use the computer for inventory in its 3,500 stores if it failed. More than 200,000 were sold by 1980.