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TIL Volkswagen has been making sausage for over 50 years.

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PYRLE TIL that in the original German version of 99 Red Balloons by Nina, the balloons aren't red. The German lyrics make no mention of balloon colours anywhere in the song.
XEnVX TIL the helicopter used during the US operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 that crashed was a stealth helicopter that was never known to publicly exist before
x6BLw TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
b80 TIL that Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Cage, Richard Dreyfuss, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Corben Bernsen, Michael Klesic, and the lady who does the voice of Marge Simpson ALL went to the same High School.
9AZG TIL Humans almost went extinct about 70,000 years ago.