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TIL Volkswagen owns Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, and Ducati

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1j8O TIL Bob Marley Died from Skin Cancer that Started Under his Toenail
b9Pb7 TIL: The word "Antifragile"—it describes systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures; fundamentally different from resiliency (recovering from failure) and robustness (resisting failure).
X0kX6 TIL that some Greco-Romans 2000 years ago may have created bread in the shape of a phallus for self-stimulation purposes, which is commonly referred to as a 'bread dildo' in modern times.
OGyN4 TIL that while Danny Trejo was filming in "The Muppets: Most Wanted!" his mother passed. The cast all offered their sympathy but he shrugged it off because of his 'tough guy' persona. It wasn't until Steve Whitmire apologized in character as Kermit the Frog that Trejo broke down crying.
l7edB TIL that a touchstone originally was a piece of slate used to test the purity of precious metal alloys