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TIL Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent
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TIL NBC’s Dateline aired a segment showing gas tanks on General Motors pickup trucks tended to explode on even low-speed impacts. G.M. responded with an investigation showing that Dateline had rigged explosions in the show by affixing model-rocket engines to a truck’s underbody.
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TIL part of Washington, DC was returned to Virginia in 1846 in a process called "retrocession," but the sections donated by Maryland have resisted the idea of being reunited with Maryland.
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TIL John Madden, the football coach, did not in fact create the Madden women’s shoes brand
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TIL about Rudolph Diesel: when he invented the Diesel engine, he envisioned local communities growing crops to run their engines and making themselves entirely self-sufficient. Today, virtually all diesel engines run on petroleum from the ground by multinational oil companies in a globalized market.
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TIL that a 2016 facial recognition test gave a 95% likelihood, the highest possible score, that a man in a post-WW2 photo was Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew whose assassination of a diplomat was used as an excuse by the Nazis to instigate Kristallnacht & who was long-presumed to have died during the war.