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TIL Volkswagen AG, the largest automaker by sales and seventh largest company in the world, is controlled by a single family descended from Ferdinand Porsche.

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RQ8w TIL that JFK would not let Sammy Davis play in the White house in 1961 after his interracial marriage Illegal in 31 states at the time. His marriage not only made headlines, it inspired death threats and demonstrations and forced Davis to hire 24-hour armed guards.
dDl5K TIL that the actor Chris Barrie—most famous for portraying Arnold Rimmer in the British sitcom Red Dwarf—has a large collection of Victorian advertising signs.
wR6J TIL that Nestlé promoted breast milk subsitutes in developing countries which lead to the death of infants
emZb TIL a victim of sexual abuse tracked down her abuser, her father, to help put in him jail. It took her 9 years but she never gave up.
gMOoX TIL Robert Hooke, despite pioneering the experimental method and discovering many elements of gravitational theory first, was almost entirely erased from history by Sir Isaac Newton because they did not like each other and Newton lived 25 years longer, allowing him to edit history to his favour.