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4XJZJ TIL Walgreens used to own a 24-hour restaurant chain to compete with Denny's and Big Boy
KX9Q TIL Delaware had more corporate entities, public and private, than people — 945,326 to 897,934.
66JY TIL in 1969, Porsche developed a successor to the VW Beetle, the EA 266, which had a 1.6l 100hp mid-engine (strongest Beetle at the time: 54hp) and went up to 118mph. The VW board of directors was horrified - they wanted it to be sporty, but cheap and not a sports car - and it was never produced.
wdoM TIL: The CIA secretly pumped funds into abstract-expressionists, such as Jackson Pollack & Mark Rothko, in an attempt to make popular American freedom and expression art in contrast to rigid Soviet art
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