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

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YpNZv TIL about "sexy primes", sets of prime numbers that vary from each other by 6. The name comes from a pun on the Latin word for six, which was sex. The lowest number set is (5,11), which is also today's date.
wvAM TIL the genetic make up of your DNA predicts whether or not Cilantro tastes like soap to you. Researchers took DNA samples from 30,000 people and identified the gene OR6A2 as the factor involved in disliking Cilantro.
bND7 TIL that the continually scolling news headline at the bottom of the screen only became commonplace after 9/11, to allow viewers to catch up on other news unrelated to the attacks
D1MVP TIL that one of the first crimes recorded in Antarctica was at the USSR's Vostok Station, where one scientist attacked another with an ice axe after losing a game of chess.
Epwp TIL there is a common urban legend that there was no looting after the devastating 2011 earthquake in northern Japan. In fact, numerous ATMs were stripped and looted in the weeks following the earthquake.