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TIL Volkswagen had a promotion where every car came with a limited edition electric guitar that could plug into the car as an amp

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j6dVR TIL that during the Mexican-American War, General Gideon Pillow ordered the dirt excavated from a ditch to be piled on the wrong side.
kPyB TIL that until 1986 you didn’t even need to buy property in Alaska. You could build a house and it would have been yours…
WkrWX TIL a teenage runaway in WA learned to fly via internet, stole several airplanes, flew to the Bahamas, and was captured after an international manhunt
OooA4 TIL: President Jefferson and Madison fought pirate wars in the 1800s against the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean Sea
BrOod TIL Carlos was dubbed "The Jackal" by The Guardian after one of its correspondents reportedly spotted Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal near some of the fugitive's belongings