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TIL hundreds of vehicles involved with Volkswagen’s Diesel-Emissions Scandal are sitting in the abandoned Pontiac Silverdome parking lot

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p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
OpxY TIL that during the burning of Washington D.C., in the War of 1812, a tornado formed in the middle of the city and headed toward Capitol Hill killing British soldiers and destroying cannons. After the rains that came with the tornado put out the flames the British decided to leave the city.
BrnRk TIL Isaac Asimov was not a fan of Orwell's 1984, saying about it in 1980: more people bought it and talked about it than read it, for it is a dreadfully dull book - didactic, repetitious, and all but motionless.
dD4pj TIL: In 2001, the Brazilian internet provider "IG" promoted the "Day of Good News", which would give priority to reporting light and optimistic things, leaving the bad news of the day for another time. Then a mayor of a big city was murdered. And the 9/11 attacks followed.
XEQP TIL through listed accounts in the Bible, God killed a total of 2,552,452 people.