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TIL Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen Beetle.

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9wDgB TIL Elvis Costello's dad recorded an album covering Elvis Presley's hits.
e0erb TIL about Operation Catapult. After the fall of France in 1940 Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to seize or destroy the French Navy to prevent Hitler from using it. In one British attack 1,297 French sailors were killed. This proved to US that Britain would resist Nazi Germany whatever the cost
lov75 TIL that Bhutan is the only country in the world whose nature converts more CO2 than the land itself produces.
YpyNP TIL why incest and teen pregnancy are common in Alabama and Mississippi, respectively
9wp6B TIL about Janet Stephens, a hair stylist turned hairstyle archeologist. She visited a museum in 2001 and realized historians were wrong about hairstyles on Greek and Roman statues being wigs. She recreated the styles and published her findings in The Journal of Roman Archaeology.