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TIL Ferrero uses a quarter of the worlds hazelnuts making Nutella.

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j6MPn TIL Herbie Hancock's 2007 Joni Mitchell tribute album titled River: The Joni Letters is one of only two jazz albums to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The other album is Getz/Gilberto which featured American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto.
KOMAJ TIL BMW used prisoners from concentration camps like Dachau to build their cars and plane engines during the second world war. By the end of the war, almost 50% of the 50,000-person workforce at BMW consisted of prisoners from concentration camps.
N7bR1 TIL - The inventor of the shiftless and seemless CVT (continuously variable transmission) was in fact Leonardo Da Vinci.
Dy8e Til the classic shark line from Pixar’s film Toy Story, “Look, I’m Woody! Howdy, howdy, howdy!” is a reference to a cowboy-eating vulture from a 1980’s Gary Larson ‘The Far Side’ comic strip. “Hey, everyone, look at me, I’m a cowboy! Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!”
e01og TIL that the character Marvin The Martian from the Bugs Bunny cartoons wasn't trying to destroy the earth because he hated humans. He was trying to destroy it because it was in the way of his view of Venus.