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

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0wGp TIL Jesus Christ is mentioned in the Qur'an five times more often than Muhammad
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loD15 TIL that Jeff Bezos is spending $42M building a 10,000 year clock
9Y5g7 TIL that a Spanish town mailed dog poop back to offenders. A team of volunteers looked for careless dog owners and struck up conversations to learn the dog's name, which made it possible to identify the owner via pet records and mail back the poop, labeled "Lost Property." Violations dropped by 70%.
5egP TIL that the great-grandfather of Russian author Alexander Pushkin, was black. An African slave bought for Peter the Great, he became a major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and a nobleman