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TIL The classic beetle was manufactured by VW until 2003

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R744a TIL about the theory of inoculation and its uses in politics and advertising: introducing a weak form of an argument that can easily be thwarted in order to prepare the audience to disregard a stronger, full-fledged form of the argument from an opposing party
oygL TIL a crime watch meeting in Florida was interrupted by a falling 75lb bale of cocaine that had been ejected from a drug smuggling plane flying overhead
15EW TIL that Jon Burge, a Chicago police officer, tortured over 200 primarily black suspects and forced many of them to falsely confess.
Y7yxA TIL that 6174 is called the Kaprekar Constant after Indian Mathematician D.R. Kaprekar. No matter which four digit number you start with (as long as it is not identical), you will always end up at 6174 in a maximum of seven iterations.
N7Q48 TIL Black apples exist. In a remote part of Tibet grow "Black Diamond Apples". This is due to the amount of UV light they receive along with temperature fluctuations at night.