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TIL that “Honda has never built a V8 for passenger vehicles. In the late 1990s, the company resisted considerable pressure from its American dealers for a V8 engine with American Honda reportedly sending one dealer a shipment of V8 beverages to silence them.”

KOwAR TIL that a toilet break once sank a submarine. When the captain of U-1206 was unable to operate the toilet, he called in an engineer, who flipped the wrong switch, causing water to flood in and filled the ship with chlorine gas. The ship surfaced, was spotted, and was attacked and scuttled.
08Gj TIL that the largest embassy in the world is the U.S embassy in Iraq.It cost $750 million to build and is larger than the Vatican City.
69bKZ TIL in 2012 the widow of a man who died while having 3-way sex with a friend & a woman who wasn't his wife was awarded $3m in a malpractice suit. The jury found his doctor was negligent in misdiagnosing his heart condition & failing to warn him to end all physical activity until more tests were done
alJo TIL: Rolling Paper company RAW has a separate portion of their company dedicated to humanitarian efforts. This includes digging wells, rebuilding/refurbishing older wells, leading community initiatives in rainwater collection, and sustainable year-round harvesting, just to name a few
xVo8B TIL: There's a Native American lake named Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. It means "you fish on your side, I fish on my side, and no one fishes in the middle." Located in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, it is known more commonly as Lake Chaubunagungamaug or Webster Lake.