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TIL the Onion was nearly sued out of existence by Janet Jackson for running an article titled “Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson”

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DQeGg TIL that in the 1930s the founder of Porsche made a deal with Adolf Hitler to create the first ever Volkswagen and also helped make German tanks/weapons for WW2
mxvlp TIL the Hoover Dam was made with enough concrete to build a highway from New York to California
6MR8 TIL that Patrick Stewart watched Galaxy Quest in a full theatre on a Saturday night, and laughed louder than anyone there
P1aZe TIL about “Umuganda,” a national holiday in Rwanda taking place on the last Saturday of every month for mandatory nationwide community work.
9w0ZD TIL in 1874, the Freedman’s Savings Bank, created to help African Americans build wealth, collapsed due to mismanagement and fraud. Over 60,000 Black Americans lost about $3M in savings, devastating trust in financial institutions and crippling Black economic progress many decades.