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TIL that Chrysler owned Lamborghini from 1987 until 1994

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nWPB TIL the head of the Gestapo disappeared after WWII and his fate remains a mystery.
b6B6Z TIL that, despite being taught to learn from failure/mistakes, humans tend to block the memories of failure and make the same mistakes again.
GAQ97 TIL the 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation was the largest escape of a group of slaves to occur in the Cherokee Nation, in what was then Indian Territory.
wo7N1 TIL a cesium atomic clock (the current SI standard for a second) drifts by a second in about 30 million years, while a strontium optical lattice clock drifts by only one second over 30 billion years.
BWWK TIL that in China they constructed a building with embedded wind turbines to provide its own power