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TIL that only Australians do the dance to Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits.

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4PZJ TIL that there are just 357 drive-in movie theaters left in America.
kGXg TIL a study titled “Where Are They Now?” in 1978 followed up on 515 people who were prevented from attempting suicide using the Golden Gate Bridge from 1937 to 1971. About 90% were either alive or had died of natural causes, concluding “suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented” rather than inexorable.
OQgg TIL in a Playboy interview, John Wayne said “Our so-called stealing of this country from (Native Americans) was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
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xrB TIL that the most expensive liquor in the world retails for 1.5 million USD, and when sold will set a Guinness World Record.