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TIL that last year VW sold more sausages than cars.

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WJOo TIL in pre-modern Europe, Outlaw or Outlawry, was one of the harshest punishments available and put the criminal outside of any legal protections, subject to persecution, murder etc. by anybody. It was considered a death sentence but not carried out by the state.
1d1r TIL that in Texas it is illegal to own six or more dildos
b6DxN TIL that a young John F Kennedy sat in the public gallery of the House of Commons and watched then UK PM (Neville Chamberlain) declare war on Germany in 1939. Churchill also gave a speech which left an impression on JFK.
wJnJ TIL that when the author of Mary Poppins died she was such a miserable person that even her grandchildren reported that she “died loving no one and with no one loving her.”
epnxD TIL Lambskin condoms are made from the intestinal membrane of a lamb, and there are records of men using lambskin condoms during the early part of the Roman Empire.