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TIL Henry ford instructed drivers in a race to finish at same time in a dead heat to create publicity for the company

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M7xOa TIL Elvis Presley recorded more than 600 songs in his music career but did not write a single song
gra4X TIL the first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital was Severiano de Hereida, a Cuban-born naturalised French citizen who advocated for the separation of church and state and was an early ecologist. He's also notable as the father of the influential neurophycisist Marcelle de Hereida.
9wONG TIL Neanderthal used penicillin and aspirin 40,000 years before modern use.
worRE TIL that Heinrich Himmler used the ancient Hindu text, Bhagvad Gita, as a justification of his crimes and compared himself and Hitler to the Hindu god Krishna.
D1Rep TIL about Anatahan, an island in the Pacific where where one woman reigned as a "Queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended