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TIL a man drove 1.4 million miles on 2001 Dodge 3500 Cummins with nothing more than relatively minor repairs

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1vY7 TIL the Buddha’s story appears in Christianity as the legend of St. Josaphat and in Islam as the legend of Budasaf.
8a9DP TIL that in 1974 a local in Alaska played an April fool's joke on April 1st of an entire city. He set about 100 car tires, smoke bombs and other flammable materials on fire in the crater of an inactive volcano to make it look like the volcano was about to erupt.
j6Npa TIL in 1908, the NYT reported a story on a dog that would push kids into the Seine in order to earn beefsteak treats for “rescuing” them.
ZReB TIL ABC has been cutting scenes from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, a movie about the excessive commercialization of Christmas, to make room for more commercials.
E1M57 TIL In Raiders’ iconic truck chase, Spielberg filmed Harrison Ford for only a few seconds (closeups). 2nd unit director, Michael D Moore, filmed most of the scene with stunt doubles, including Terry Leonard who performed Indy dragged underneath the truck and cameoed as the first Nazi truck driver