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TIL that BMW was founded by a son of the inventor of the four-stroke gasoline engine Nicolaus Otto

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KOLmG TIL the Olympic tradition of running the torch from Olympia to the host city first started at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
WkPw8 TIL that a primary source of nutrients for the Amazon is dust blown from the Bodele Depression, a dry lakebed in Africa.
X00nR TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke believes that Earth was created 6,000 years ago despite picking up the oldest moon rock known to man dated 4.46 billion years old.
XEPWP TIL Snoop dog and Cameron Diaz went to the same high school during the same time and Snoop reportedly sold her drugs.
DZLg TIL the sequel to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory includes a trip to a space hotel, the group being mistaken for aliens by the US Government in the hotel, 24 deaths, shape shifting aliens who travel at the speed of light and Willy Wonka saving the day.