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TIL Ford CEO Jim Farley is the cousin of SNL comedian Chris Farley

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oBrxo TIL "Under God" was not in the US pledge of allegiance until 1954, and "In God We Trust" was not on US money until 1956. Both were added by Dwight Eisenhower.
6ODY TIL Ron Glass was the voice of Randy Carmichael, the genial neighbor and father of four children in the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series “Rugrats” and its spinoff, “All Grown Up.”
JYdMB TIL Rodney King died on Father’s Day in 2012 by drowning in a swimming pool. This was 28 years after his father died, also on Father’s Day, and also by drowning.
b9YX9 TIL a Texas plumber's truck traded to a dealership, then auctioned and shipped to Turkey with his business' decals still on it. The truck eventually ended up in Syria, where it was outfitted with an anti-aircraft gun and used in the country’s civil war.
EOvP TIL There is a North Korean village just across the border with South Korea nicknamed “Propaganda Village”. It is apparently uninhabited and for many years it had speakers that broadcast propaganda across the border 24/7.