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TIL that the US government gave VW $51 million in subsidies for “clean Diesels”.

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R5Lp9 TIL that Ramjit Raghav was the oldest father, he had his first child with his wife at age 94, and had a second child at age 96. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 104
7KBP TIL there’s a temperate rainforest in Russia that’s home to Leopards, Tigers, and Brown bears.
b6k0N TIL, the island state of Tasmania, shares a 85m long land boarder with the state of Victoria (part of the Australian mainland) due to a surveying error
aeb TIL a man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live a very normal life
NXaZP TIL the Coronado Bridge over the San Diego bay is curved so that it can achieve a height tall enough for warships to pass under in spite of the closeness of the pieces of land it connects. The incline would be too steep without the extra distance.