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TIL The step-grandchildren of Joseph Goebbels control 46% of BMW

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PYpZG TIL one of the reasons why President Truman ordered the massive White House renovation in 1950 was that he nearly fell through the floors of his Residence in his bathub into a Daughters of the American Revolution reception in the Blue Room "wearing nothing but his reading glasses".
OdZ1 TIL Repetition compulsion is a psychological phenomenon in which a person repeats a traumatic event or its circumstances over and over again. This includes reenacting the event or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to happen again
0w4P5 TIL Warren Buffett tried to call the CEO of Bank of America to invest $5 billion after the 2008 financial crisis, only to reach Bank of America's call center where they refused to connect him
yWAX TIL Thomas Paine was condemned to be guillotined in the French Revolution. He survived because the prison officers marked the wrong side of his cell door by mistake, and didn’t notice when it was closed
kdG1 TIL US manufacturing jobs are leaving China and returning to robots in the US