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TIL the 1930s VW logo incorporated a stylized swastika
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TIL Yahoo gave the Chinese government access to the e-mail of two pro-democracy journalists who were subsequently imprisoned for 10 years for “incitement to subvert state power”.
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TIL that the first electronic music “synthesizer”, the Telharmonium, was built in 1896. It was 60 feet long, weighed 210 tons, and transmitted music over telegraph lines
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TIL that when Napoleon returned to France, the King sent troops to stop and kill him. He stepped out in front of them & said “if there is one among you who wants to kill his general, his Emperor, here I am.” The royalists cheered wildly, “Long live the Emperor.” They joined his cause.
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TIL Gordon Ramsay left one of his first jobs while as an aspiring chef because he was tired of “the rages the bullying and violence” perpetrated by the head chef
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TIL: There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.