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TIL that prior to the 1950's, Los Angeles was sometimes pronounced with a "hard G".

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QJQyX TIL cars made in the 1950s often had a loud and resonant 'country horn', and a quieter, polite 'city horn'
9ewD TIL that in 1942, business leaders in Winnipeg, Canada organized an “If day” where they simulated a Nazi invasion and occupation of the city. The fear generated during the event was a very successful fundraising tool, which managed to raise over 3 million Canadian dollars for the war effort.
XERYj TIL of Lucky and Flo, two Labrador Retrievers who were the first animals trained to detect optical discs by scent, in order to sniff out DVDs. After a raid on a bootleg DVD ring in Malaysia, reports said the dogs were now targeted by the DVD pirates and that a bounty had been put on their heads.
NrA8 TIL there is a cafe in France which charges €7 a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to wait staff
QAQe TIL Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.