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TIL that, if strictly looking at yearly output of individual units of rubber tyres, Lego is the world's largest manufacturer of tyres (albeit toy wheels), compared to Bridgestone, Michelin, and Goodyear

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5Y41D TIL that Sony needed military export permits from the Japanese trade ministry for the export of PlayStation 2s. The PS2 was so good at processing high quality images quickly that the Japanese government believed it was possible to adapt it for use in missile guidance systems.
BZwW TIL from 1901 to 1964, the majority of Stonehenge was restored in a series of makeovers which have left it, in the words of one archaeologist, as ‘a product of the 20th century heritage industry’.
QJADM TIL the fork was once considered immoral, unhygienic and a tool of the devil.
5DMr TIL African American soldiers in World War I served under the French military because white American soldiers refused to perform with them. Many African Americans moved to France after the war because they were treated better in that country.
ydOl TIL that the British war hero Admiral Nelson was taken back to England (from the Battle of Trafalgar) in a coffin made from the mast of a French ship he had sunk