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TIL when the 1957 Lotus Seven was introduced, it came as a self-assembly kit to avoid car taxation of the day. As the tax rebate didn't apply to kits that came with an assembly manual, Lotus bundled theirs with a disassembly manual that was supposed to be followed in reverse.

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QJw4L TIL about the Blair Mountain Revolt, the largest armed uprising in the US post-Civil War. Thousands of workers upset at company town policies and poor conditions in the mines staged a mass strike in West Virginia, leading to the President ordering the army and airforce in. 133 died, over 900 jailed.
Br0Jr TIL that the Anthropologist Ursula G. Bower (aka "Jungle Queen") led the Naga Headhunters into battle against the Imperial Japanese Army during WW2. Her weapons of choice were twin 9mm Sten SMGs. She was so effective, that the Japanese put a bounty on her. Nobody collected.
N7ad1 TIL Christian Bale didn't socialize with any of his American Psycho castmates, explaining: "I start laughing if I know people too well. I start laughing in the middle of scenes."
woxB1 TIL artist Dean Cornwell submitted three entries for a competition to paint the rotunda of the Los Angeles Public Library, one under his real name and two under fake names. Cornwell won the competition with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
WmPX TIL Jim Carrey offered Nicolas Cage to co-star with him in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ (1994), however Cage wanted to do a much smaller movie instead called Leaving Las Vegas. 'Leaving Las Vegas’ (1995) ended up earning Nicolas Cage an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1996.