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

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W968 TIL a baby was raffled away in the Seattle world fair in 1909 and no one knows what happened to him.
wL6X8 TIL Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts) from Beauty and the Beast (1991) sang “Tale as old as time” in a single take after being initially against it because she thought her “aging singing voice” wasn’t suited for the song.
p8Vr8 TIL that some lighthouse light apparatuses use a mercury bearing to reduce friction, allowing for faster rotation speeds without powerful mechanisms
a8EJ TIL 14-year old Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to play a 17 year old soldier in Apocalypse Now. Filming took so long that Fishburne was actually 17 years old when shooting wrapped.
Jp7l TIL that a study of self-reported gluten sensitive people without celiac’s disease showed that high-gluten, low-gluten and control diets affected the participants in the same way.