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TIL TESLA is the only car manufacturer in the US whose workforce is not represented by a union

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e0x0n TIL Oreo "Double Stuf" do NOT contain double the amount of filling, but merely 1.86 times the amount, though Nabisco refutes this claim.
P1DbG TIL that John Kelly was banned from the 1920 Henley Royal Regatta due to his occupation as a bricklayer. He would go on to win Gold in the 1920 Olympics, and sent George V a letter saying "Greetings from a bricklayer." His daughter Grace would become royalty herself, and his son later won at Henley.
Z88A4 TIL In 1903 after camping with John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt established Yosemite as a national park to preserve its "majestic beauty all unmarred." As President, TR signed into existence four other national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird & wildlife refuges, and 150 national forests.
PY7QL TIL of John William Godward, an English painter who committed suicide at the age of 61 and left a note stating: "the world is not big enough for [both] myself and a Picasso”. Godward was a neo-classic painter; his style of painting had declined with the rise of modern art.
V1dQ TIL The only national soccer team that has never lost to Brazil is … Norway.