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TIL the Volkswagen Golf is named after the Gulf Stream (Golfstrom in German) and not Golf the sport.

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P1Nwg TIL about "Nobel Disease", a tendency for some Nobel Prize winners to adopt unfounded, pseudoscientific beliefs, often outside their areas of expertise.
yVZaV TIL that in Nigeria, "Dundee United" - the name of a Scottish football team - is used as an insult meaning 'stupid'.
dn88 TIL that Stanley Kubrick had shown an interest in directing a porn, but then concluded that he did not have the patience or temperament to become involved in the porn industry
7rxox TIL the 1930s VW logo incorporated a stylized swastika
M78rb TIL in 2005, a L.A. Dodgers pitcher offered the Miami Marlins batboy $500 if he could drink a gallon of milk in under an hour without throwing up. The batboy drank the milk in 59 minutes but threw up outside the clubhouse. The episode prompted the Marlins to suspend the batboy for 6 games.