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TIL: Imigrants are less likely to commit crimes in the United States. It has been this way for over 100 years.

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NXGYb TIL Speed Racer was based off the 1964 Elvis film "Viva Las Vegas". Tatsuo Yoshida, creator of Mach GoGoGo, stated that this movie was his primary inspiration.
XbpQ TIL of Otto Skorzeny, a Lt. Colonel in Hitler’s SS who was once called “the most dangerous man in Europe” by Allied intelligence. Years after the war, Skorzeny became an agent for the Israeli Mossad and assassinated an ex-Nazi rocket scientist.
YpNvG TIL the Hindenburg disaster was only the fifth deadliest airship disaster of all time.
J1M0B TIL that the modern assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by Ransom E. Olds. Ford then took the idea and improved it.
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