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TIL a “perfect” Ford Model T costs less than a new Mustang. The costliest specimen in 2020 sold for less than $25k.

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9YwJX TIL Big Band musician Glenn Miller scored 23 number one hits in just four years which was more than Elvis Presley (18 No. 1 hits) or the Beatles (20 No. 1 hits) managed in their entire careers.
XEQ4j TIL Nicolas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew
BrWPk TIL that debunking a famed fake mechanical chess player helped set Edgar Allan Poe on the path to mystery writing
R7AL9 TIL In 2018, Massive Attack encoded an album into synthetic DNA to mark it's 20th anniversary. Spraycans were made with the DNA encoded audio within matt black paint, each can containing approx a million copies of the album
j6p5j TIL that C. S. Lewis' first two names were Clive Staples