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TIL:Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of Lamborghini started off by manufacturing tractors. He bought a Ferrari once and after finding the clutch to be ‘inferior’ he went to Enzo Ferrari to ask for a better one. He was dismissed as a ‘Tractor maker’. Ferruccio decided to start off his own car company.

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b6JPa TIL there are at least 40,000 native speakers of Ladin as of 2011, a written and spoken language in the Dolomite Mountains with similarities to Romansh (in Switzerland) and Friulian (in Italy). A standard form was developed for use in the whole Ladin-speaking region and is used on traffic signs
GApKG TIL about Project Venona, the US effort to decrypt KGB/GRU intercepts leading to some of the greatest intelligence breakthroughs during the cold war. Including exposing critical Soviet assets, (ie. the Rosenbergs, David Greenglass, and Kim Philby)
v1MXj TIL There is a conspiracy theory that Eminem died in 2006 and has been replaced by a clone
awajN TIL a man went to prison for killing hundreds of thousands of fish, blaming them for the death of his father. First I started picking them off with my 30.06, when I ran out of shells I went after ‘em with my knife. when I dropped it into the river, I went to work with my bare hands.”
kJrpE TIL about the advert possession, a common law whereby you can claim ownership of a property if you squat there for long enough.