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TIL the 1930s VW logo incorporated a stylized swastika

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x0Pw TIL the founder of the Samaritans (the suicide hotline) was Chad Varah, an Anglican priest whose first service was a funeral for a fourteen-year-old girl who died by suicide because she had begun to menstruate and feared that she had a sexually transmitted disease.
e0kl5 TIL of Katie Brumbach, a 20th century strongwoman who met her husband of 52 years after he took her on in the circus ring; her father was offering a 100 gold marks to anyone who could defeat his daughter. An aspiring acrobat named Max Heymann took her on, but lost. He then fell in love with her.
R70mj TIL in 1936 a man was killed by a kangaroo. The kangaroo "broke the jaw" and inflicted "extensive head injuries" on the man, who was attacked after attempting to rescue his two dogs. It is the only documented case of a fatal kangaroo attack.
ANYdg TIL Hans Zimmer composed the Skylanders theme
QNDa6 TIL that there was an English painter who was also a chimpanzee named Congo, who produced 400 pieces of art by the time he turned four. His style was called "lyrical abstract impressionism" and Pablo Picasso was reportedly a fan of his work.