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TIL - in 2015, Volkswagen sold more currywurst (sausages) than cars. The sausages are branded with a stamp that says “Volkswagen original parts” in German (“Volkswagen Originalteil”)

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wxl8 TIL that in 1978 France rolled out a pre-World Wide Web online service (MiniTel) that gave it’s users access to online shopping, search engines, cybersex, message boards etc … France Telecom only retired the service in 2012 after 30 years and 800 000 units still in use.

rR074 TIL of the Strauss–Howe generational theory. According to this theory, every 80 years is a crucial “fourth turning” of generations in American history. The “fourth turning” is necessarily marked by a crisis that has destroyed the social order and created a new one, after which a new cycle commences.

ANMJ4 TIL that sharks existed on Earth even before there were trees

XeJ8 TIL: That one of Bill Nye the Science Guy’s professors at Cornell was Carl Sagan.

b9QwN TIL that the Richter scale, used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake, is logarithmic, meaning every whole-number increase in the scale indicates a tenfold increase in the intensity.