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TIL that West Germany’s players were injected with meth before they won the 1954 World Cup final.

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XEGJ6 TIL that the Henry Ford Company eventually became Cadillac where a man named Jack Taylor worked. He made renting a vehicle easy and eventually founded Enterprise Ren-A-Car. A business named after the Aircraft Carrier he was stationed on.
nePK7 TIL about the biggest pizza ever created. It was 13,580 square feet and made in Rome, Italy, in 2012. The pizza was gluten-free and named “Ottavia” after a roman emperor.
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