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jpXE TIL that Joseph Goebbel’s step-son, Harald Quandt, owns nearly half of BMW together with his family industrial empire.
4XDrJ TIL of the fraternal birth order effect, which indicates that for every older male brother a man has, their odds of being attracted to the same sex increases by a third.
jv9j TIL that on this day in 1964, 3 civil rights activists trying to get to get black voters registered to vote in Mississippi were murdered by the KKK. National outrage over their death helped spur support for the Civil Rights Act.
69BYW TIL some antennas are disguised to look like local foliage, for aesthetic purposes
jN9KX TIL The reason "blue raspberry" is blue and not red is because flavored ice makers had an excess of red colored items and blue dye but not enough to go with the blue coloring.