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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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lQX5 TIL the origins of spiked dog collars came from ‘wolf collars’, which were designed to protect dogs throats from a wolf attack.
95ym TIL Abraham Lincoln dressed up as a Scottish immigrant in order to escape an assassination attempt on his way into Washington for his Inauguration.
6XaJ TIL that there is a statue outside the Paris museum Pompidou celebrating Zinedine Zidane’s last match where he headbutted Marco Materazzi in the WC final ‘06
dVAE TIL Bhopal gas disaster was the worst industrial disaster ever killing close to 4000 people. The incident happened when poison gas escaped from a Union Carbide factory due to negligence. The American CEO of the company was arrested, let out on $2100 bail and never came back to India to face charges.
5VOJB TIL twice every day at the same time almost 900 weather balloons are released across the world that collect the data used for forecasting the weather.