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TIL that Volkswagen was once the most valuable company in the world - for exactly one day.

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X0gor TIL about the Tube Challenge, the fastest time to to travel to all London Underground stations. The current record to travel to all 272 stations is 18 hours and 8 minutes, which was set on October 23, 2023 by a group of eight teenagers aged 16-17.
OR07 TIL Who framed Roger Rabbit is loosely based off of a true conspiracy by General Motors to purchase & dismantle streetcar systems in American cities between 1938-1950
QN0Z6 TIL that Crystal Glass gains its properties from high lead content, making it dangerous to consume food from the 'fancy' crystal glassware
mAov TIL: Many German beer names include the word ‘Hell’, meaning pale, and the place they are from. There is a pale lager from Austria called 'Fucking Hell’.
1aWw4 TIL That the inventor of petroleum jelly ate a spoonful every day, claiming it had tremendous health benefits. He lived to be 96. He also, reportedly, during a serious bout of pleurisy in his mid-50s, had his nurse rub him from head to foot with the substance. He soon recovered