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TIL Ferrari and Mercedez keep blueprints to every car they’ve ever made and will produce parts for them if you need one repaired.

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VOV0 TIL US sailors in WWII mixed a drink called “Torpedo Juice,” an alcoholic beverage containing pineapple juice and 180-proof alcohol used as fuel in torpedo motors
oBLDr TIL: Victor Goldschmidt, the founder of modern geochemistry carried a Cyanide pill as a last resort if captured by Nazi's. When a colleague asked him to create one for him, he stated, "Cyanide is for chemists; you, being a professor of mechanical engineering, will have to use the rope."
NXvyM TIL that the tea company Twinings was founded in 1706 as a coffee shop that sold tea to stand out from the competition, and its flagship location still occupies the same premises today
pYJap TIL Pope Leo XIII awarded a Vatican gold medal to the creator of his favourite brand of cocaine-infused wine and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.
ObvX TIL that Techno Viking sued, censored and bankrupted the producer of the original video that started the meme.