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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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WlX9 TIL pioneering shock rocker Alice Cooper credits golf with helping him overcome alcohol addiction and plays the game up to six days a week.
nv7W TIL that Ernest Hemingway’s mother disliked his first book, The Sun Also Rises, apparently claiming he was “prostituting a great talent” and “pandering to sensationalism”
7r4VO TIL that No Kum-Sok, the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft, received a $100,000 reward from Operation Moolah in 1953. He landed the wrong way on the runway: had he tried to land in the right direction, he would have been spotted and shot down.
W70kX TIL There is an Airlines Special Service Request code called DPNA which alerts airlines that a passenger with intellectual or development disability is travelling and would need special assistance/attention. This code was introduced by IATA in 2008, but many are not aware of it.
1alv4 TIL that the French general that lost the battle of Trafalgar, was found dead a year later in a French hotel with six stab wounds in his left lung and one in his heart. His death was ruled a suicide. This verdict was heavily mocked by contemporary British press.