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TIL: In 2003 dodge built and sold nine motorcycles with a viper V-10 engine called the dodge tomahawk.

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ADoag TIL, actor Clark Gable fought in WW2 and almost got killed once. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to noncombat duty. Also, Hitler was a fan and offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.
xVOR7 TIL the only commercial Elvis ever made, was for Southern Maid donuts.
PYwwZ TIL in 1972, Nintendo launched the "Lefty RX", a remote-controlled car that could ONLY make left turns due to a deliberately cheap design. It ended up being a tremendous success, and influenced Nintendo focusing on fun over next-gen-tech in future video game consoles.
LkrQ TIL that speakers of the tonal language Mandarin are 10x more likely to develop perfect pitch than native English speakers (bottom graph page 5).
b8KZ TIL that Nepal Airlines have the worst safety record in the world, and have sacrificed goats to fix technical problems.