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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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W7xro TIL in Italy there is a movement that has been compared to fairtrade, that markets brands and venues as anti mafia and not paying the extortion money, especially in areas hit hard by organized crime

b9QvQ Today I learned that Borges, Neruda and Nabokov were the losers of the controversial 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature which was awarded to Soviet novelist Mikhail Sholokov.

b9rKQ TIL that the word palindrome spelled backwards is emordnilap and an emordnilap is actually a word that, when spelled backwards, makes a new word (ex: desserts & stressed). So basically, "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome.

GYZVJ TIL The Roman with the most statues depicting them that survived to the modern day was Antinous, the boyfriend of Roman emperor Hadrian.

Lkaap TIL that the oldest Olympian ever was Oscar Swahn of Sweden, who won the gold medal in shooting at the 1912 Olympics at the age of 65.