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TIL that fossil fuel doesn't come from dinosaurs.

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WkEE4 TIL the classic VW Beetle was produced in Mexico from 1955 until as late as 2003, where it was used as a taxi. The Mexican government effectively ended the Beetle's production because street gangs would often raid two-door cars as the passenger in the back couldn't escape.
loEer TIL that in 2012 a Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao announced to offered $65m to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter Gigi Chao. He later doubled his offer to $130m. After this Gigi said in an open letter that "I think I'll marry a man when he marries a man."
kO8vg TIL a CIA project called 'Operation Paperclip' allowed hundreds of Nazi scientists to live freely in the US providing them cushy jobs and a high standard of living. Many of these scientists have committed horrendous war crimes, like experimenting on live humans with chemical and biological weapons
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
AVAa TIL: Wu-Tang Clan Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard (R.I.P.) saved the life of a 4 year old girl who had gotten trapped under a car after being ran-over. ODB ran to the scene of the accident and organized a group of about a dozen onlookers to lift the car off of the little girl.