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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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xVjbo TIL about an Australian Aboriginal language that uses direction (north, south, east, west) instead of left and right; the standard greeting is "where are you going?" to keep everyone completely oriented.
7rVvx TIL of gutter oil - cooking oil which has been illegally recycled from waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers, grease traps, slaughterhouse waste and sewage from sewer drains. It is estimated 10% of low end restaurants in China use it
Gjb5 TIL that the Queen of Denmark did illustrations for Lord of The Rings
8aR1Z TIL that George Washington was actually a Redhead and that he did not wear a wig. Instead, he powdered his hair
Oorag TIL In 1942 some scientists theorized that detonating a nuclear bomb could produce such intense heat that it would cause a chain reaction which would set the atmosphere itself on fire, killing all life on Earth.