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TIL that president Lyndon Johnson had an amphibious car and used it to scare people by driving them into a lake screaming about brake failure

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B81W TIL that Brian Jacques wrote the Redwall series for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where as a truck driver, he delivered milk. This is the reason for his very descriptive writing style.
egwD TIL that the phrase “writing on the wall” comes from a story in the Bible where a disembodied hand warns of the end of a kings reign.
x6117 TIL that THC can be detected and quantified in the semen of men who are chronic users of inhaled cannabis.
RwdQ TIL all four daughters of Karl Marx were called Jenny.
5oAn TIL the USA prosecuted a farmer for growing Wheat rather than buying on the open market. His conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court.