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TIL the founder of Lamborghini tried talking to Enzo Ferrari about improving their cars, but Enzo refused because Lamborghini was just a small tractor maker.

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Z4ED TIL Keith Richards would help set up the elaborate speaker systems on stage for the Rolling Stones concerts, so they would have a secret place to sniff pharmeceutical cocaine during their performance.
M7xv0 TIL Thomas Jefferson paid journalists to report that John Adams was a hermaphrodite as part of a smear campaign
VBmpm TIL Columbia Pictures refused to greenlight the 1993 film Groundhog Day without explaining why Phil becomes trapped in the same day. Producer Trevor Albert and director Harold Ramis appeased the studio, but deliberately placed the scenes too late in the shooting schedule to be filmed.
EgkEp TIL in 2002, two men were indicted for pay phone fraud and accused of leasing 24 pay phone lines from Pacific Bell, routing 23 of the lines to an empty office, and then hooking the lines up to an auto-dialer which called over a million 1-800 numbers whereupon each call could earn about 24 cents.
yVjyw TIL that Reynolds, the company that makes Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, once built and operated a deep sea submersible. Called the Aluminaut, it was the world's first aluminum submarine.