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TIL that in the past, some cars had deployable people-catchers that would grab people in the road instead of running them over.

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nWdmP TIL that sustaining the filibuster in US political history has, at various times, involved: preparing a pee bucket, reading the phone book, reciting recipes, and in one most remarkable case, restraining Robert La Follette from hurling a brass spittoon at Joseph Robinson in 1917.
WkEJB TIL Olive Oyl was a main character for 10 years before Popeye's 1929 appearance.
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