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TIL that Michelin once accidentally gave a Michelin star to a small cafe which shared the same name as the actual recipient

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VMax4 TIL about James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was cartoonist in New Yorker who got injured on one eye in childhood and lost vision from the other eye too. But he started seeing hallucinations and it is believed, they were the source of most of his illustrations.
78LDP TIL King Henry VIII of England had servants called "Grooms of Stool", who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.
gMgB9 TIL Ford Is Planning To Install A Cellular Vehicle-To-Everything Technology In All Their New U.S. Models, Starting In 2022. It will make cars auto-pay for fast food and navigate through road hazards
wLoBJ TIL Tom Cruise had Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Leah Remini and others over at his house and tried to play hide-and-seek with them, going so far as to run off into 3 acres of land
ANZ6o TIL: In 1494, Europe experienced the closest thing to a real-life zombie outbreak.