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TIL the Volkswagen Type 1 (Beetle) was first brought to the US in 1949. Only two vehicles were sold, convincing the VW chairman that the car had no future in the US.

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MPBB TIL when filming the movie “Space Jam”, Warner Brothers built an indoor gym nicknamed the “Jordan Dome”. MJ used it to get back into playing shape for his return by playing pickup games against other NBA players and celebrities
4bAb TIL all steel produced after 1945 is contaminated with background radiation because of the use of nuclear weapons. Such steel is unusable for many scientific and medical applications and steel made before 1945, often taken from sunken battleships, must be used instead.
dD9Oj TIL that when 45 year old George Foreman knocked out 26 year old Michael Moorer to win the world heavyweight championship, he was wearing the same red trunks he had worn 20 years earlier in the Rumble In The Jungle.
PRgL TIL that the modern English word phoenix derives from the Middle English word phenix, itself from the Old English fenix, which was borrowed from Medieval Latin phenix, which is derived from Classic Latin phoenix
8aWya TIL about the Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, the largest piece of human feces ever found by archeologists. It tragically broke into three pieces in 2003 after being dropped on show at an exhibition.