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TIL that the first widely sold car rearview mirror wasn't a safety device. Instead, the 'Cop-Spotter' was intended to help you avoid the police. After the product launched in 1921, mirrors in cars grew increasingly popular, eventually being recognised as an essential safety feature.

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oRe6A TIL the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints church is 99 years old.
1WL4 TIL Fanta is available in hundreds of flavors, including “Mushroom,” “Red Tangerine,” “Lychee Soursop,” and “Banana Fermented Milk”
e0A1D TIL about Borderlands 2 character Michael Mamaril. A Borderlands fan that died at 22 before Borderlands 2 came out. When his friends asked Gearbox if they would have Claptrap read a eulogy, they instead made a character in the game based off of Michael himself.
KYRV9 TIL in 1967, Singapore experienced a mass panic over shrinking genitals; hundreds of men ran to hospitals convinced their penises were retracting into their bodies due to “genital retraction syndrome”
XEWDE TIL that White Button, Cremini, and Portabello Mushrooms are all the same mushroom, just at different levels of growth and maturity.