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TIL the 1930s VW logo incorporated a stylized swastika

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RDJ9 TIL that April 8th is Draw A Bird Day. It is observed to honor a 10 year old girl who was killed in 1946
m1R1M TIL the sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who ordered roast beef between toasted bread during long card games.
M7xNW TIL factory workers were told to clean the paintbrushes on their lips while painting the self-luminating radioactive radium dials on watches in the 1920s.
b9RM7 TIL of the Siege of Weinsberg. A surrender allowed the women to leave with whatever they could carry, so the women lifted their husbands onto their shoulders and walked out.
8amda TIL researchers modeled a system where the Peter Principle holds true and found that instead of promoting the best employees until they reach a level where they stop performing competently, it's more efficient for a company to promote employees at random. For this research they won an Ig Nobel.