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TIL Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.

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pQZp TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation.
AN7Nn TIL that Star Wars was based on the Roman Empire
mEjy TIL that the music used in the “you wouldn’t steal a handbag… you wouldn’t steal a car” piracy advert, was in fact stolen.
0dP4j TIL that the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent continuously clapping is 3 hours and 16 minutes, set by Grace Lubega Matovu (Uganda) in 2023
eY4D TIL the CIA sponsored exhibitions of Jackson Pollock’s work in order to globally popularize abstract expressionism and devalue socialist realism