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TIL Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.

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9MNQ TIL that “the best-selling Playboy edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. One-quarter of all American college men were buying the magazine every month.”
RMvw TIL that Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A” deals with the negative effects of the Vietnam War on Americans, but is often misunderstood to be a patriotic or nationalistic anthem.
19Qr TIL that in 2013, the village of Miami Shores forced a married couple to either stop growing vegetables or pay $50 per day, they justified they’re decision by saying vegetables are “ugly”.
Y7ORP TIL In 1979 a rabbit, hissing and baring its teeth, swam up to Jimmy Carter’s boat while he was fishing. He shooed it away with a paddle, but the incident damaged his reputation
OOlY TIL that the graffiti artist that painted Facebook’s first office in 2005 was paid in shares, and is now worth over $200 million.