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TIL that is illegal to run out of gas on the German Autobahn.

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avBb TIL Financial Hero—Businessman and broker Haym Solomon was responsible for raising most of the money needed to finance the American Revolution and later to save the new nation from collapse.
JMw1 TIL that ‘Vanilla’ comes from the latin word 'Vagina’ due to the way the way the pod must be split open to expose the seeds (#3)
Nw6Q TIL of William Windsor, a lance corporal in the British Army. Of royal blood, ‘Billy’ was temporarily demoted for a lack of decorum and disobeying a direct order after headbutting a drummer. William Windsor is a goat.
wo7eM TIL In March of 1915 four corporals in the French Army were shot by firing squad as an example to the rest of their companies during WWI. The events of the Souain corporals affair inspired the 1935 anti-war novel Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb, later adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick.
J1PO4 TIL: Robin Williams had a requirement that for every single event or film he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work. This under the radar, no publicity requirement helped countless homeless people find work.