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TIL: In 2009 a Kansas City car dealership offered a voucher for a free AK-47 with every truck purchase.

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GY4Ag TIL that upon its release 'Stalker', a film by Andrei Tarkovsky, was criticized for being slow. In response to this Tarkovsky replied "The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts."
4AA5 TIL Noodles, the guitarist for The Offspring, was the janitor for the school the band went to. He was allowed into the band because he was old enough to buy the band alcohol.
8ep4 TIL that all Pakistani passports bear the inscription “This passport is valid for all countries of the World except Israel.”
mxg5P TIL that Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie (1938) was one of the first sound cartoons. Mickey was voiced by Walt Disney himself.
4kdvJ TIL Charles Manson Actually Once Was a Choir Boy