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TIL that Gary, Indiana was named “America’s Most Miserable City”

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nW6Er TIL The 1896 Ford Quadricycle was Henry Ford's first attempt to build a gasoline-powered automobile and he tried to make it as simple as possible. He sold his Quadricycle for $200 in order to build his second car but bought the car back for $65 in 1904 after his company became successful
VD78 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was once shot while delivering a speech and instead of going the hospital he spoke for 90 minutes telling the crowd “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
yQgo8 TIL Coco Chanel, famous fashion designer, was a Nazi sympathizer and agent
epBpg TIL that famed author William S. Burroughs "accidentally" shot his wife in the head in what he claimed was a drunken reenactment of William Tell
YpXdW TIL while filming ‘The Princess Bride,’ André the Giant said his favorite thing about being on set was that “nobody looked at him strangely or singled him out because of his immense size.”