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TIL Adolf Hitler hired the creator of Porsche to make the first Volkswagen Beetle(his personal car)

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NKeb TIL the Toyota War was the end phase of the Libyan-Chadian war where the Chadian army and its Toyota pickups destroyed 92 T-55 battle tanks, 33 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, and 784 soldiers while only losing 18 men and three trucks.
Owla TIL that Boston police confused an LED display, with a picture of a cartoon character on it, for a bomb in 2007. This caused the Boston police to shut down part of a highway, part of the public transportation system, and costing $2M worth of “havoc in the city”
nMgP TIL that George Washington Carver did not actually invent peanut butter. Peanut butter has been around since as early as the Aztecs.
wLxw1 TIL: You can be allergic to allergy medicine
Wk6W9 TIL an all African-American, female WWII Battalion was sent to England to streamline the mail for all American soldiers in Europe. It was thought soldiers without access to mail lost morale. 6 month's work was completed in 3 as they devised a system to send the packages and worked 7 days a week.