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TIL Volkswagen paid a $120k fine to the EPA in 1973 for using “defeat devices” to disable pollution-control systems

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R59w7 TIL that Nintendo bought up the rights of two 1993 pornographic parodies of the Super Mario video game series to halt their distribution indefinitely
JWVl TIL That Excavations of a kurgan in Russia in 2013 revealed that Scythian tribal chiefs used gold bongs 2400 years ago to smoke cannabis and opium.
Zpll4 TIL: The 34 yr-long Lenski Experiment has studied over 75,000 generations of E.coli since 1988 to understand evolution.
kJ1Yg Til in the original Charlie and the chocolate factory ran into controversy with the NAACP over its depictions of Oompa-Loompas as being of "black pygmy descent" with an illustration to go along t after hearing the criticism Dahl decided to change it to be more fantastical.
a8Jd0 TIL about The 'Keeper of the Apes' - British forces who cared for a population of Barbary macaques in Gibraltar from 1915 to 1991,