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TIL the original doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts had a handle
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TIL in 1988 NASCAR used falsified drug tests to keep a driver with AIDS (Tim Richmond) from driving.
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TIL that when Henry Maxim invented the automatic machine-gun, he went deaf from test-firing it so much.. this affected his son enough that as an adult he added his own invention to the family legacy: the silencer.
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TIL In the United States, in a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day.
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TIL that the 2011 film The Tree of Life did not use CGI in its depictions of space, instead wielding similar techniques used in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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TIL the suicide rate increased 28% from 1999 to 2010 among persons aged 35–64 years.