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TIL - The Dodge Viper was discontinued in 2017 not due to low sales numbers, but because side curtain airbags were starting to be required. The SRT team felt it would have been too expensive, needing a redesigned chassis and significantly reducing its already limited headroom.

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DrWj TIL In the making of “Once Upon a Time in the West”, one of the actors (Al Mulock) commited suicide by jumping down from his hotel room. Before being taken away in the ambulance, director Sergio Leone shouted, “Get the costume, we need the costume.”
nW8GB TIL that British General Lord Cornwallis, the man who lost at Yorktown thus losing the US Revolution ended his career as Governor-General of India in July, 1805 and died there 3 months later. He is interred in Gauspur in Ghazipur in a neo-classical tomb.
VBQ4Q TIL traces of 13,000-year-old beer were found in 2018 marking the earliest known evidence of beer production among ancient peoples. The discovery also marks the oldest record of human-made alcohol in the world.
XEEkR TIL that the little spiral wrap around car antennas is there to stop aerodynamic oscillations, not to boost signal or make it stronger
LkA0Z TIL there was a southern fast food chain called Yogi Bear's Honey-Fried Chicken (and fiberglass statues of Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy, and Ranger Smith have been dumped into a "graveyard" behind a truck stop in North Carolina).