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TIL the Flying Dutchman was probably a result of an optical illusion

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w606 TIL Porsche once made a gasoline powered tractor specifically for coffee farmers. Diesel fumes could change the flavor, so a rare gasoline powered industrial tractor was built.
GYwX1 TIL the Property Brothers have a music career, but they go by the Scott Brothers.
jNjEn TIL that President Tyler was referred to things like "Vice-President acting President" and "His Accidency" after President Harrison died in office. The Constitution was unclear about what his title was supposed to be in this situation.
OJOY TIL American soldiers would wrap suicide attackers from the Moro Muslim group in the Philippines in pig skin to make them unfit to go to heaven and deter potential future attacks by them
x69Xo TIL there are 16,000 acres of sand dunes in Alaska - Kobuk Valley National Park