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

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8e8pG TIL former US president Jimmy Carter and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are related by way of their great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy.
14oP TIL that there’s a stinky, phallus-shaped mushroom can instantly trigger an intense female orgasm
7rPPO TIL Researchers have determined that bats address each other as individuals and frequently get into arguments.
a46J TIL that before the dominance of HTML on the web, a protocol called GOPHER existed. Despite its linear navigation, lack of an hyperlink function, not having images, and the current lack of support from the main browsers, gopher:// sites such as Twitpher exist in a parallel, bizarre text driven web.
Y7PgA TIL that the Apollo astronauts had to go through customs when they returned from the moon. They had to declare things like moon rock and other lunar samples.