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TIL the phrase "souped up" predated automobiles and was actually a reference to injecting horses with steroids to improve their performance.

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OADe TIL Leonardo DiCaprio had to play a poorer version of himself in Wolf of Wall Street because he is richer in real life than the character he was playing. DiCaprio made 59 million for Inception, 20 million for The Great Gatsby and 10 million for Wolf of Wall Street. Those are only three of his films.
X0aEr TIL That John Tyler Was The Only US President To Not Be Buried With The American Flag And The only US president To Be Buried With The Confederate Flag
DYoY TIL Its not actually true that the US space program spent millions on developing a pen that worked in space, whereas the Russians just used a pencil. They both used pencils at first, but the shavings and chipped graphite floating around were harmful to the astronauts and computers
ANJBa TIL the "taste bud mapping" we learned in school has been discredited for years and is still a mystery.
5LpD TIL that before his Moon walk, Buzz Aldrin took communion secretly. Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair had brought a lawsuit against NASA objecting to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Book of Genesis. O'Hair demanded that astronauts refrain from broadcasting religious activities while in space.