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TIL Bill Gates has a trampoline room with a 20-foot ceiling in his house

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k7W1 TIL: There is a last known recording of Hitler in conversation describing why the war didn’t go well in his own opinion.
JY59k TIL a model spotted his face on a jar of instant coffee 16 years after a photo shoot and won $15.6 million.
5YdMR TIL that Six Flags, which originated in Texas, got its name from the flags of the six countries that have ruled over Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the US, and the Confederate States of America.
j6wgp TIL Ford's first car, a 1903 Model A with an original price of $850, sold at auction in 2012 for $264,000. This specific car was the third 1903 Model A made by Ford and is the oldest known surviving Ford car. The buyer was William Clay Ford Jr, the great-grandson of Ford founder Henry Ford.
KkpE TIL that we say “red heads” instead of a more appropriate “orange heads” because we needed a word to describe redheads before we needed a word for the uncommon color of orange.