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TIL that Dodge Ram, Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge are owned by a company in the Netherlands

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d8XyE TIL: Singer Rod Stewart has eight children from five different women, and there is a 49-year age gap between his youngest and oldest child (ages 6 to 55).
ADjkB TIL FIFA is not solely in charge of making the rules for football (soccer). Instead, FIFA meet with the football associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales to collectively agree any rule changes. This is due to the legacy of the games origins in the United Kingdom.
gA94 TIL a German air traffic controller was upset at a British pilot and asked him rudely if he had never been to Frankfurt before. The British pilot replied “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark…and I didn’t land.”
ADoYB TIL that the US Navy publicly denied what is now believed to be an urban legend. Allegedly, a US Navy battleship or aircraft carrier encountered what was ostensibly another vessel and the Captain instructed it to change course. The response was, 'I'm a lighthouse. Your call.'
gna4 TIL seeing a single extra upvote very early in a comment’s life could change a user’s mind about how they feel about a comment, regardless of what the comment actually said.