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TIL that a 39 mile-long sausage was created in Romania in 2014

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YpQWG TIL a Utah Highway Patrol officer pulled over what he believed to be an impaired driver. It was a 5 year old who had stolen his parents car and made it on to the freeway after an argument with Mom because she wouldn't buy him a Lamborghini. He was on his way to California with $3 to purchase one.
LQMm9 TIL: In 1947, the FBI issued a memo stating that the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" was a communist trick to discredit bankers because the bad guy in the movie, Mr. Potter, was a banker.
QJkkL TIL of Drapetomania, a pseudo-scientific mental illness that suggested slaves were mentally ill for running away from their slave owners, and was supposedly caused by slave owners being too friendly with slaves, and "treating them as equals".
j9dE TIL of the term “Drawbridge Mentality”, a term used to describe people who move into a community they consider “unspoilt”, then oppose any form of inward migration and development.
9Y6mQ TIL that researchers used Renaissance paintings to get a sense of breast cancer’s historical prevalence.