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TIL Nissan was losing money for 8 straight years until Carlos Ghosn made it profitable in just 3—after vowing at the Tokyo Auto Show that the board would resign if he failed.

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j6pLn TIL that in China, water is typically drunk hot
m1EXo TIL Napoleon only started learning French at age 10. Having been born in Corsica (which was ceded to France by Italy the year he was born), his first languages were Corsican and Italian. He spoke with a distinctive Corsican accent and never learned how to spell correctly in French.
5BVD TIL the special sunglasses John Lennon and Ozzy Osbourne wore are called “teashades”
4kk5 TIL Pope Benedict VIII condemned cats as evil and had them burned by the thousands. This led to an explosion of the rat population and attributed to the effects of the Black Death
neN7r TIL the bazooka rocket launcher was nicknamed for a musical instrument invented by a radio comedian in the 1910s