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TIL Tesla Model S Is Best Selling Car In Norway.

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JABl TIL MLB players with atleast 8 years of service get a golden ticket, which allows free admission for the holder and a guest to any park in the major leagues for life.
ADyba TIL that Clara Blandick, who played Aunt Em in the Wizard of Oz, killed herself by overdosing on sleeping pills and tying a plastic bag around her head. She also left a suicide note saying she could no longer live with the pain or face going blind
oBYA7 TIL that the dog breed Labrador comes from the Canadian Labrador peninsula which in turn comes from the name of the Portuguese explorer João Fernandes Lavrador which means "plower"
neQPG TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).
N7LNb TIL that the CIA made an Osama bin Laden action figure that looks like a 'Star Wars' villain to send to Pakistani and Afghani kids, because "it would help find Bin Laden"