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TIL that the Volkswagen Group makes $9,202.88 every second.

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QGG6 TIL Andy Warhol, mentor and manager of The Velvet Underground, wanted their debut album to have a built-in crack, so that the line “I’ll be your mirror”, from the song of the same name, would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listeners moved the needle themselves
69e5J TIL about The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, an elite Danish naval unit that conducts long-range reconnaissance patrolling, and enforces Danish sovereignty in the Arctic wilderness of northern and eastern Greenland.
78mvr TIL In 1911, two Oxford academics claimed they time-traveled to 18th-century Versailles and saw Marie Antoinette.
0doLR TIL about Bruno Kastner, one of the most popular actors in Germany’s silent film era. His career ended with the advent of sound as audiences discovered he spoke with a stutter. Less than two years after his sound film debut, he took his own life at the age of 42.
QmZ9 TIL that in 1971, phone phreaker John Draper discovered a way to gain free minutes for long-distance, AT&T calls. He would blow a toy, ‘Captain Crunch’ whistle, which had the same 2600-hertz tone that indicated a trunk line was ready to be put through, and gain access to additional minutes.