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TIL Volkswagen was created on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler

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xbb7 TIL a WWI ace landed his biplane atop an enemy observation balloon, cut his engines, and slid off into an acrobatic maneuver leaving the balloon to erupt into flames behind him
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