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TIL Volkswagen was funded by the Nazi trades union organisation. (Deutsche Arbeitsfront)

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4axR TIL Michael Bay offered a $50,000 bounty to anyone that could give information leading to the arrest of a women who videotaped herself throwing puppies into a river.
7jrX TIL Fox ran a contest for fans to guess Who Shot Mr. Burns and win a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be animated in the show. The ‘winner’ actually got the answer wrong, didn’t watch the Simpsons and took cash instead of being animated.
pYN9G TIL mole Robert Hanssen was caught because a tape the FBI paid $7 million in part to get contained a quote from a Patton speech, "the purple-pissing Japanese", and the agent listening to the tape remembered Hanssen using the same phrase once.
KlpB TIL that there was a 6 wheel Formula One race car, which was designed to reduce drag and increase grip
n65G TIL In North Korea, it is the year 104. That’s based off of the Juche Calendar, introduced in 1997. Juche 1 is based on the year Kim Il-sung was born, April 15, 1912.