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TIL Jim Varney appeared in-character as Ernest P. Worrell entertaining the press corps at the White House

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4k6DN TIL President Gerald Ford once tried to eat a tamale without taking off the corn husk while campaigning
Y7DNP TIL kurt vonnegut was a POW in Dresden, Germany, during the allies firebombing campaign. This would help shape his anti-war views later in life.
0xYy TIL In 1869 an atheist built a 10-foot tall petrified man statue and buried it in Cardiff, New York, to sucker Christians into thinking it was a long lost Biblical giant. They paid to view. He got rich.
NbAQ TIL Jerome Flynn, who plays Bronn in Game of Thrones, had a Number 1 single in the UK in 1995 and was produced by Simon Cowell
Eg150 In September 2021 Canada required that all new vehicles sold there have one of the following: 1) tail lights that come on with daytime running lights, 2) headlights, tail lights, and side marker lights that turn on automatically in the dark, 3) a dashboard that stays dark to alert the driver