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TIL about badge engineering, which is the practice of marketing a vehicle under 2 or more brand names. A good example being the 2010 Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner, & Mazda Tribute, shown here

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9YQVr TIL that the lethal dose of chocolate for a human is 22 lbs, or 40 Hershey Bars.
x6ak0 TIL about the Pact of Forgetting: a deal made between both the left and right wing of Spanish politics after the death of Fransisco Franco. It stated that neither side should directly confront the legacy of Francoist rule, in order to allow the country to move on during the transition to democracy.
6vM8 TIL The developers of “Game Dev Tycoon” released a Cracked version of the game to the PirateBay, where players can’t profit from their creations because of… Piracy
Yp1eZ TIL Keanu took a $2 million pay cut for The Devil’s Advocate, so the studio would be able to afford to hire Al Pacino as the lead.
njnY TIL the show “Biggest Loser” would dehydrate and mistreat their contestants to make them lose weight and keep the show interesting.