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TIL a bunch of Mexican VW car dealership owners sent a Volkswagen Beetle to Pope John Paul II

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ePlD TIL Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy directed and produced the 80′s classic movie Three Men and a Baby. Highly illogical.
117W TIL the Milky Way chocolate bar was not named after the galaxy but rather the then-popular Milky Way malted drink
b96y9 TIL The Trip (1967 movie) by Roger Corman is a movie about LSD, the director took doses to make it. Jack Nicholson who wrote the screenplay was taking it at this time along with two actors in the movie were famous for tripping: Dennis Hooper and Peter Fonda.
Lbem TIL: A 14 year old girl in the UK was accused of racism by her teacher, and was arrested. She was participating in a group project and her group consisted of several Asian students of whom only one spoke English. She simply wanted to be in a group that spoke English.
dYLZ TIL Walmart paid employees of “Walmart de Mexico” in company scrip vouchers usable only at Walmart stores until a court ruling in 2008.