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TIL That Rolls Royce never disclosed the horsepower for their Silver Shadow and advertised it as “adequate.”

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0wKKL TIL that parts of Anne Frank's diary were censored because some of the entries described her vagina.
bBZE TIL in 1956 a man appeared on the popular TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” who had witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14th, 1865
5AJp TIL a woman in France received a rather substantial phone bill of 11,721,000,000,000,000€ (6,000 times the GDP of France itself). The phone company suggested she pay it off in multiple installments and only admitted their error after further pressing.
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