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TIL the 1930s VW logo incorporated a stylized swastika

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kOJXe TIL the Rolling-Right-Turn on red is the number one cause of car accidents in the US
9a7p TIL in 2013 Europe was hit by a horse meat scandal, in which 300 tons of horse meat was found throughout the EU food supply labeled as beef. The source was traced to a Romanian slaughterhouse, who sold it as horse meat to a chain of Cyprus, Dutch, and Irish resellers who mislabeled it.
lovv1 TIL Bananas get their curve because they grow towards the Sun.
5Y0vr TIL in 1969, a 14-year-old boy in Toronto pretended he was a professional news photographer and was able to secure an interview with John Lennon, which sat around until it became part of a documentary in 2007
WBR8 TIL A man in Canada smuggles Trader Joe’s branded groceries from the US to sell in his store “Pirate Joes” in Canada.