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TIL that in the most famous scene of the movie "Gone With The Wind", an alternate line "Frankly my dear, I just don't care." was also shot in the event the censors would object. The censors approved the movie but fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for including the curse.

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VL78 TIL The Honda Prelude was the first mass produced car that featured a mechanical 4-wheel steering system. In it’s debut year it beat every car in the slalom test, including Porsche and Ferrari.
OokKX TIL That Jet ('Are You Gonna Be My Girl') released a second album, which Pitchfork rated at a 0.0 and posted a video of a monkey peeing into it's own mouth in lieu of a review
P14pZ TIL that Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th American President, sold firewood on street corners in St. Louis throughout the mid to late 1850's when he was struggling to make a living as a farmer.
XNV6 TIL about the Rosewood massacre which was a racially motivated massacre of blacks and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida.
lVNN TIL Psychiatrists have redefined “Pathological Grooming” such as skin-picking, hair-pulling, and nail-biting as similar to OCD, and they are considered often to be virtually uncontrollable.