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Lxp TIL: Team USA To Be Decked Out in Uniforms Made in China | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo! News
a8vX9 TIL that the anthem of the French football club Le Havre AC is sung to the tune of God Save the King to honour its English founders
6y7m TIL that in 2005, despite producing only 1/50th the number of cars as Volkswagen, Porsche attempted to buy VW on the open market. It rapidly amassed 74% of the outstanding shares of its larger German counterpart before running out of money and ultimately being purchased itself by none other than VW.
rN9ox TIL: Earlier this year, Connecticut lawmakers are finally deciding to exonerate victims of the witch trials 375 years ago posthumously following exonerations of convicted witches from Massachusetts and Scotland last year.
GPO5 TIL The concrete used to make the Hoover Dam is still curing to this day