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

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amRL TIL that sharks can collapse under their own body weight on land because they lack a rib cage.
x6Kvw TIL Barry Manilow wrote and performed the iconic ad jingles "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there", and "I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me!" (for which he adopted a child like voice) and McDonald's "you deserve a break today"
ODEg TIL A prominent cause of divorce among older Japanese couples is “retired husband syndrome.” Doctors first described the syndrome when wives began showing stress symptoms when made to manage their recently retired husbands who have nothing to do but bark orders at them all day long.
QV8d TIL that Japan’s Emperor Akihito has a living uncle. Emperor Hirohito’s youngest brother Takahito, Prince Mikasa turned 100 in December 2015. His marriage to Yuriko, Princess Mikasa has lasted 74 years. They have three sons and two daughters; their sons have all died.
E1N90 TIL a Japanese teenager, Yaoya Oshichi, was tried for attempted arson in 1682. She did this because she wanted to reunite with a temple worker she met at another fire. They tried to try her as a minor, but she didn't pick up on the judge's hints to lie about her age. She was burned at the stake.