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TIL that Hitler commissioned Ferdinand Porsche to create the VW Beetle as the Nazi everyman's car. Porsche stole the design of the car from a Jewish engineer named Josef Ganz who died in obscurity.

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nXV9 TIL Mahatma Gandhi had deep disdain for black people, once describing them as ‘only one degree removed from the animal,’ and 'whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness".’
XRJ6 TIL “Kleptocracy” is a government with corrupt rulers (kleptocrats) that use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political power.
mxyo TIL that the thieves that committed the great train robbery played Monopoly after the crime - with real money.
b6Xl4 TIL Director Robert Altman conceived of the idea for 3 Women (1977) while his wife was being treated in a hospital.he had a dream in which he was directing a film starring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek in.He woke up mid-dream, jotted notes on a pad,and went back to sleep, receiving more details.
l7jkN TIL Giant Pandas don't have a fondness for humans. The relationships they develop with humans are conditional. Basically, whoever brings them food (or extra food-based treats!) can have their attention for a little while.