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TIL about "Little Bastard.” The cursed customized Porsche 550 Spyder, made famous in the 1955 fatal crash of James Dean. The car mysteriously disappeared in 1960.

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PYmjO TIL On a postflight tour in China in 1982, astronauts from STS-3 showed pictures of an emerald-colored lake taken over China to a crowd in Beijing and accidentally revealed a secret atomic test site.
QJZVM TIL of the Dingo Fence- A 5614 km (3488 mile) fence built in the 1880s to keep Dingos out of South East Australia. The fence is one of the longest structure in the world and is still up today.
4kD15 TIL in 2016 “Worlds Luckiest Man” survived a plane crash and then won the Dubai Millionaire Lottery 6 days later. “God saved me for some specific purpose“ he said.
w6LE TIL 90,000 Kentuckians fought for the Union, while 35,000 fought for the Confederate States. But Kentucky has 72 Confederate monuments and only two Union ones
rN6Lw TIL the state of Mississippi did not repeal Prohibition until 1966.