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TIL Car makers employ sound engineers to give car doors that satisfying 'thunk' when closed.

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4xNN TIL under secrecy, that the first jet powered aircraft flown in the US was piloted by Jack Woolams. Already confused by seeing a plane flying with no propeller, other pilots who spotted Woolams would then see him in the cockpit wearing a gorilla mask, a bowler hat, and smoking a cigar.
v1dQ4 TIL Orange Crush soda originally had orange pulp in the bottles, giving it a "fresh squeezed" illusion even though the raw pulp was merely added during bottling, rather than actually being the remains from freshly squeezed oranges
X04yD TIL that the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, was banned from attending official Star Wars events because he leaked too many plot details.
oR7wo TIL South Africa won the 1974 Tennis Davis Cup finals by default as the Indian team had refused to travel to South Africa in protest of the Apartheid regime
R75V1 TIL Stolen Tide is often used as a currency to buy drugs