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TIL Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen Beetle.

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wxl8 TIL that in 1978 France rolled out a pre-World Wide Web online service (MiniTel) that gave it’s users access to online shopping, search engines, cybersex, message boards etc … France Telecom only retired the service in 2012 after 30 years and 800 000 units still in use.
QJYYe TIL Zakouma National Park, Chad, is the closest “Big Five” destination to Europe. Six black rhinos were flown 3,000 miles from South Africa to settle in the park in 2018 since their species was wiped out by poachers. All the rhinos were dehorned to deter poachers, and electronically tagged
bA8p TIL the act of self-mastery of a subject without teachers is called autodidacticism
69RGw TIL Octopuses have three hearts: two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body. They also have a central brain and a large neuron cluster, often called a "mini-brain," in each of their eight arms, allowing for significant independent function of each arm!
GYRYG TIL that only five (5) athletes--three women and two men--have ever won a medal at both the Winter AND Summer Olympic Games. Eddie Eagan, the first to do it, is still the only athlete to win gold in both.