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TIL that Brazil, the only country in the world that still produces the Volkswagen Bus, will stop production by the end of this year

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oBjW7 TIL that there's a stonehenge at the bottom of Lake Michigan
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6V1J TIL Otto von Bismarck predicted World War I twenty years before it happend, and Germany’s downfall and defeat, almost to the month
9wMoX TIL that George Lucas sued to stop the use of ‘Star Wars’ as a nickname for Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. He lost.
neAwr TIL about the 504 Sit-in, a disability rights protest that began on April 5, 1977. People with disabilities and the disability community occupied federal buildings in the United States in order to push the issuance of long-delayed regulations regarding Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.