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TIL that Czechoslovakian car company, Tatra, sued Ferdinand Porsche for patent infringement, due to similarity in design between the VW Beetle and the Tatra V570. Hitler said he would "solve his problem," subsequently invading Czechoslovakia in 1938. The lawsuit was dropped soon after.

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E1L7 TIL on August 12, 1944, the German SS entered the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema and killed every living thing, including 110 children (the youngest being only 20 days old) and 8 pregnant women, by machine gun and hand grenade. The massacre took 3 hours. Then they set the corpses on fire.
PYdog TIL Airbnb got it's name because it used to be an air mattress company called Air Mattress B&B.
4XkXX TIL The Australian Army has a rank in their structure called the Pioneer Sergeant. This is position is authorized to wear a beard and carry an axe. This position follows a British Army tradition dating back to 1865.
gMR7A TIL That the Goodwill will refuse to take your old office chair, bean bags, or box spring mattresses
8aMPX TIL the woman in the famous "Migrant Mother" photo was Florence Owens Thompson, a Cherokee woman and widow who came from Oklahoma to California with her second husband during the Great Depression. Her 10 children all survived poverty and starvation and later bought her a house. She lived to be 80.