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TIL Qatar owns 17% of Volkswagen

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E1Djo TIL of Narcotizing Dysfunction. A theory where you obsessively follow the news until it tricks your brain that you are doing something about it, when in reality you are doing shit.
LkdR9 TIL Victor Klemperer, Jewish KZ inmate and post-WWII professor of German literature, wrote a book that analyzed how Nazis introduced a nearly Orwellian kind of German language. Examples are: "crisis" for defeat, "connection" (Anschluss) for annexation, and "enhanced interrogation" for torture.
yQJLV TIL of 'Revelations of Divine Love', a book of Christian mysticism by Julian of Norwich. Written in 1373, it is the oldest surviving book in the English language written by a woman.
oRWVE TIL that DHL's colour scheme of red and yellow is largely due to sponsoring the yellow-liveried Jordan Formula One Team from 2002. Before then, they had used red and white.
VMJ0Z TIL that in 1961 two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina when the US bomber carrying them broke up in midair. Although neither detonated, one of the bombs was fully armed and it is unknown to this day why it failed. Each bomb had 250 times the destructive power of the one used at Hiroshima.