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TIL: The Hudson Hornet from Cars was a real car that dominated NASCAR

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LQLbp TIL that I went to high school with someone who won the Nobel Prize. Congratulations David!
rR9kd TIL of The Mutiny Hotel - the early 80s cocaine-fueled Miami hotspot where the CIA partied side by side with notorious drug traffickers, celebrities and politicians.
e0L94 TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, who helped invent leaded petrol, once poured the lead additive over his hands and inhaled its fumes to prove it was safe. He was later diagnosed with lead poisoning... for the second time.
oR1eo TIL that in 1960, some 14,000 cats were dropped by parachute over Borneo to combat a rat plague, and it worked!
JbOV TIL After calling US gun laws a “disgrace”. Para USA, which made the guns in the Taken films, said “We will no longer provide firearms for use in films starring Liam Neeson and ask that our friends and partners in Hollywood refrain from associating our brand and products with his projects”