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TIL that Volkswagen in addition to making cars, also produces sausages in the same mega factory "under part number 199 398 500 A."

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gr0b4 TIL In 1910, a Spanish shepherd named José María Grimaldos López disappeared. Two men, León Sánchez and Gregorio Valero, confessed to his murder under torture and spent 12 years in prison. In 1926, Lopez returned home, alive and well. He had been living in a village 70 miles away the entire time.
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