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Today I learned that Toyota, car company, started in the apparel industry of making silk-weaving looms

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5eMr TIL that the extinct american cheetah could be the reason pronghorns run so fast today
wL1aY TIL that the 1932 film "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" helped bring an end to the widespread use of chain gangs in the American South.
4k8g6 TIL in 1955 jazz musician Wardell Gray - who played with Count Basie and Benny Goodman - was scheduled to play the opening night of the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Vegas, the first integrated hotel-casino in the city. Gray never played and his body was found in the desert, with his death still a mystery.
pMLZ TIL that in Gilbertese, the official language of the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, the word for dog (kamea) comes from the sound that the natives heard Europeans calling out to dogs (come here).
j6wgp TIL Ford's first car, a 1903 Model A with an original price of $850, sold at auction in 2012 for $264,000. This specific car was the third 1903 Model A made by Ford and is the oldest known surviving Ford car. The buyer was William Clay Ford Jr, the great-grandson of Ford founder Henry Ford.