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TIL that Nutella uses 25% of the world’s supply of hazelnuts.
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TIL F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone was arraigned by a German court after a large share acquisition by F1’s holding company. He was permitted, legally, to pay $100m to have the case dropped. His charge? Bribery.
DVLD
TIL in WWII the Germans used “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”: They left paintings on the wall, skewed to the side and rigged to explode when straightened.
OoxZX
TIL the German city of Frankfurt Am Main supplies heroin addicts with clean needles and tolerates the consumption of drugs in "shooting galeries" around the central station to control the city's drug scene. This approach is called the "Frankfurt way".
d60B
TIL Al Sharpton led the public civil rights involvement of a rape case of Tawana Brawley in which 6 whites (including police officers) were accused of raping the young girl and putting her in a trash bag covered in feces. The jury later found the defendants innocent and the story fabricated.
ZpKka
TIL Larry Bird Once Played A Game Mostly With His Left Hand Because He Wanted to Save His Right for the Next Game Against the Lakers.