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TIL Qatar owns 17% of Volkswagen

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w0JP TIL there was a little ice age between 1600 and 1814. The river Thames in London used to completely freeze over for 2 months per year allowing “Frost Fairs” to take place with football pitches, bowling matches, fruit-sellers, shoemakers, barbers… even a pub or two.
46m5 TIL someone invented a circular sling shot or torus device called a “SlingATron” to launch things into space.
neWwo TIL Study Shows We Are Born Creative Geniuses But The ‘Education’ System Dumbs Us Down
QNDM TIL That there is a well documented fan theory that “The Shining” was secretly Stanley Kubrick’s way of telling his audience he filmed the fake lunar landing.
dDWAK TIL Turkmenistan banned non-white cars