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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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5YxNn TIL about a group of women who flirted with Nazi’s before luring them into the woods and shooting them.
oRYLW TIL Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II who led the largest anti colonial rebellion in Spanish American history in 18th century Peru
mxvAv TIL mob informant Henry Hill - subject of the movie "Goodfellas" - on the first day of his new identity in Witness Protection, took his family to dinner at a Godfather's Pizza franchise as a joke.
Brwvd TIL that a judge sued a dry cleaner for $67 million because they lost a pair of his pants
D1BRP TIL A creepy story from Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, about meeting a legless man who slept under a cabinet and performed parlor tricks on command, inspired "Home" -- widely considered the most disturbing episode of The X-Files