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8Y9G TIL Hitler sanctioned the construction of a six-wheeled 3,000hp Porsche intended to break the land speed record. It was 27ft long and made its power from a 44.5 liter V12
VMyM4 TIL After leaving the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed moved to his parents' home on Long Island, and took a job at his father's tax accounting firm as a typist, by his own account earning $40 a week.
d8JBK TIL while in heat a lioness can mate for three days straight, sometimes with multiple males, about once every 20-30 minutes (a rough estimate of 50+ times a day).
6ELyw TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.