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TIL The classic beetle was manufactured by VW until 2003

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e0xg4 TIL the Milano cookie was created as a result of Pepperidge Farm's original cookie the Naples, a single vanilla wafer with dark chocolate filling on top. When shipped to warmer climates, the cookies would end up stuck together. The company resolved the problem by sandwiching Naples cookies together.
epZE5 TIL in 2010 during Netherlands' Remembrance Day ceremony a man screamed so loud into crowd of 20,000 people it caused a panic stampede injuring 87.
78y8r TIL that the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois are at the largest pre-Colombian city in North America. At it's peak in 1100 CE, the city covered 6 square miles and housed upwards of 15,000 inhabitants. Indigenous people today, including the Cherokee and Choctaw, continue these mound-building traditions.
awGjL TIL: Sweat has less electrolytes than the blood, so by sweating you are increasing the concentration of electrolytes in the blood
AAlB TIL Karl Marx’s last words were “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”