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TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car, a car that serves as both a vehicle and a boat. He used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake while screaming that the brakes were malfunctioning

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N75M1 TIL that the term cakewalk comes from a 19th century dance, invented by slaves in the antebellum South. It was intended to satirize the ballroom promenades of white plantation owners. Couples promenaded through the ballroom, bowing deeply and frequently. The couple who performed the best won a cake
RnKw TIL that Penn from Penn & Teller owns U.S. Patent 5,920,923 for the “Jill-Jet”, a hot-tub jet specially angled for a woman’s pleasure.
XE9Jj TIL that Boxing legends Pacquiao, Marquez and Barrera took up business degrees. Marquez was an accountant before he became a legend while Barrera took up law. Pacman on the other hand took up business administration.
kJ4nm TIL in 1912 4 yr-old Bobby Dunbar disappeared, was found eight months later in Mississippi with a couple that refuted that it was him. Courts ordered the boy to live with the Dunbars. 100 years later DNA verified that the boy was Bruce Anderson and had been wrongly identified by Dunbar's parents
E1nLP TIL of Mohamed Bzeek, a Libyan-born Muslim living in Azusa, California, a foster father who takes in only terminally ill children. Bzeek, who has been fostering such children since 1989, is the only foster parent in Los Angeles County who will do this.