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TIL President LBJ Owned an Amphibious Car, the Amphicar, and used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure

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oBgMR TIL procrastination is an emotional problem and the human mind is designed to survive not thrive. It's only when our fear of inaction surpasses our fear of action that our mind stops negative thoughts and gets the task done. Procrastination has nothing to do with the task itself or time management.
gMYJL TIL about the play Gatz. It's an eight hour long reenactment of the novel The Great Gatsby. The entire text of the novel is memorized by the cast.
Qnp TIL Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
xVDp7 TIL unlike most owls, pueo are active during the day and are commonly seen hovering or soaring over open areas. The species is thought to have colonized the Hawaiian Islands sometime after the arrival of Polynesians. They are very sacred to Hawaiians because they protect individuals from harm.
m154o TIL that the common ancestor of all mammals lived about 180 million years ago