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TIL that in October of 2008, Porsche inflicted the “mother of all short squeezes” on Volkswagen (VW) by announcing how much stock it had “after it became clear that there are by far more short positions in the market than expected".

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N76o6 TIL a dog named Sundance (Sunny) was trained to go get a grocery list from his neighbor who is self-quarantining due to medical conditions that put her at high-risk such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and then he brings the groceries over to her front door every night.
MeNaW TIL there's an Australian moth (Uraba lugens) that wears its previous heads as a hat. They call it the Mad Hatterpillar.
ARNl TIL that in Toronto, 1933, an amateur baseball game broke out into a massive race riot when a group of Nazi sympathizers, protesting the Jewish players, unveiled a crude Swastika flag. “A crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob.”
nMvP TIL that in 2008, natives of the Greek island of Lesbos appealed to a court in Athens to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe sexual attraction between women, claiming that the island’s inhabitants with their 3000 year old history are the true, original lesbians.
RlJ6 TIL Comedian Mitch Hedberg’s heroin addiction was so severe that it mangled his right leg to the point of amputation, instead doctors performed a 13 hour surgery to save his leg leaving him with a limp for the rest of his life.