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TIL That Volkwagen Group owns all of the following brands: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducatti, Lamborghini, MAN, Porsche, Scania, SEAT, SKODA, and, of course, Volkswagen.

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l1kK TIL A man who committed a mass murder in North Carolina in 1988 was set free in 2012.
R7xm4 TIL Betty White is not a natural blonde but rather a brunette, and she has been dyeing her own hair in her home for decades.
4Xa7g TIL 15 years after the US allied with France to defeat Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, the US switched sides by allying with Great Britain to defeat France in the "Quasi-War of the Atlantic". The United States won both times.
GAnaQ TIL Children can suffer of dementia
Wkak8 TIL that the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) sect of Judaism and the Quaker sect of Christianity are both named after the exact same word (Isaiah 66:2): "Yet to such a one I look: To the poor and brokenhearted, who 'quakes' (חָרֵד in the original Hebrew, pronounced 'hared') before my word"