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TIL the first car to use a rear-view mirror was driven by inaugural Indy 500 winner Ray Harroun to see the cars catching up behind him

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aDyb TIL a tourist from the town of Dull, Scotland visited the town of Boring, OR and proposed that two villages become sister cities.
9YWXB TIL of Gregory Blackstock, an autistic savant born in Seattle who spent his working life as a pot washer. He has created visual lists - astonishingly meticulous drawings of such diverse subjects as The Great Cabbage Family, Classical Clowns, Shoes, American Lighthouses and Great Italian Roosters.
nWwV9 TIL that the Aztecs sometimes held a festival called Pillahuana, where young children would get drunk as an initiation into adulthood
GApjj TIL the motorcycle used by Henry Winkler's character "The Fonz" on the show Happy Days was the same bike used to jump the fence by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.
ynbV TIL Tennessee has an “Unauthorized Substances Tax” which requires “merchants or peddlers” of illicit substances to buy stamps to affix to illegal substances that they sell. Oh and don’t worry, buying the stamps is completely confidential and legally cannot be used as evidence in court.