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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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AXLg TIL Hitchcock tried to buy all copies of the book Psycho, so that no one would know how it ended before seeing the film.
nWLAW TIL that Dr. Maya Angelou recorded an album of duets with Jessica Mitford's cowbell and kazoo band Decca and the Dectones, Jessica Mitford being the author of “The American Way of Death” and the younger sister of Adolf Hitler's girlfriend Unity Mitford.
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D1rlD TIL :Police in West Midlands, U.K. have hung posters with photographs of staring eyes exploiting a phenomenon called “gaze detection". While humans evolved it to avoid being eaten by predators, some law enforcement agencies believe that it might actually help to deter some crimes.