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TIL Volkswagen has been making sausage for over 50 years.

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PYdjL TIL The Addams Family originally began as a New Yorker cartoon
xVXg1 TIL Mississippi set a speed limit of 80 miles per hour on toll roads; there are no toll roads in Mississippi.
5VBdP TIL the term " white elephant gift exchange " comes from a legend about the King of Siam giving rare albino elephants as gifts to those who displeased him. The idea was that the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.
epxWL TIL about "Hammerspace," the imaginary dimension from which cartoon characters pull out random objects.
98PD TIL the Netherlands is the third-largest direct foreign investor in the United States.