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TIL that Volkswagen was fined by the EPA for using “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests… in 1974, 41 years before the recent controversy over the same thing.

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P1egO TIL L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, attacked Mexico during World War II
RnG9 TIL that salamanders are often associated with fire in mythology because they tend to find shelter in rotting logs. When these logs would be used as firewood, the escaping salamanders would “magically” appear from the flames.
76ab TIL When Michael Jackson was 21, he wrote a personal note promising to re-invent himself as the greatest entertainer of all time.
4VrJ TIL there is a word that rhymes with orange. Sporange is a botany term that means “spore case.”
VM918 TIL that the high land ownership inequality in the UK is still a consequence of the Norman invasion almost 1,000 years ago, when William the Conqueror made all the land in the country his and then distributed it to his allies