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TIL the 1930s VW logo incorporated a stylized swastika
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TIL that in 1968 the US Navy proposed turning 2/5ths of Wisconsin into a giant underground radio antenna so orders could still be sent to submarines following a nuclear attack on America
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TIL due to lash back from a Far Side cartoon where a female chimp finds a human hair on the male she is grooming and says, “Conducting a little ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”, Gary Larson now donates all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon to The Jane Goodall Institute.
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TIL planting an apple seed won't get you an apple tree with the same apples it came from. Instead, you need to 'graft' two trees together to get the characteristics you want.
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TIL: The Pirate speak in many films comes from a single actor talking like the fishermen contemporary to his childhood home in early 20th century England
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TIL the correct and respectful way to retire a damaged or otherwise unusable American flag is by burning it.