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TIL Walter P. Chrysler created two car brands, DeSoto and Fargo, to intimidate the owners of Dodge into selling the company to Chrysler by creating new competition for them.

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RMv8 TIL Sir Robert Baden-Powel was able to disguise fortress plans in drawings of the wings of butterflies. He later incorporated his observation techniques into Scouting for Boys, the founding tome of the Scout movement.
LJM9 TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.
nWXnY TIL that the song bittersweet symphony by The verve was based on a rolling stone song
4da6 TIL that the Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
oYLo TIL an Indiana man who repeatedly drugged his wife, raped her in her sleep, and videotaped the assaults over a three year period received no jail time, 8 years home confinement, and a 12 year suspended sentence. Prosecutors had asked for 40 years in prison.