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TIL that General Motors hired private investigators and prostitutes to try and catch Ralph Nader in compromising situations, in an attempt to discredit him after he published a book on car safety in 1965.

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edA5 TIL that Ostriches can run faster than horses, they DON’T bury their heads in sand, and the males can roar like lions.
x64Bo TIL about the 1875 Dublin whiskey fire, where a river of whiskey flowed through the streets, leading to 13 deaths from alcohol poisoning instead of burns or smoke inhalation.
JXaB TIL Almost all animals and plants synthesize their own vitamin C, but humans cannot because the gene for this enzyme is defective
Eg9J0 TIL The last two states to be added to the US were admitted in 1959, only 64 years ago. Many current members of congress were teenagers when the flag had 48 stars.
ZxLG TIL that there was a Cold War Bunker Found in the Brooklyn Bridge.