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TIL: GM bought out street car companies and tanked them, to sell more cars

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m1Rjy TIL that when a Samurai acquired a new Katana or learned a new move they would sometimes proceed to test it on a random pedestrian, it's called Tsujigiri
XEjR8 TIL Lamborghini registered the unique motion of how the doors of their cars opened as a motion trademark.
0jgy TIL During a 1978 Monday Night Football game, to fill dead air, Howard Cosell commented on a delicious new snack he was eating, thus stadium nachos went mainstream.
GYdeQ TIL that the best-selling Christmas song of all time, White Christmas, was written by a Jew whose own Christmas tradition was visiting the grave of his son who died on Christmas day in 1928 at the age of three weeks old. That son was Irving Berlin, Jr.
6EQ6Y TIL that exclusive sale rights of colchicine, a 2000-year-old treatment for gout, was given to a pharmaceutical company in 2009. They raised the price 50x, costing the government over $50 million/year.