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TIL The classic beetle was manufactured by VW until 2003

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Eggx TIL on August 9, 1965, Singapore was expelled from Malaysia, becoming the first and only country to date to achieve independence unwillingly
x64lw TIL About Bum Farto, a fire chief and convicted drug dealer in Key West, Florida who disappeared in 1976.
OV8R TIL that a 1998 HIV outbreak in the porn industry started on the set of “The World’s Biggest Anal GangBang”
PO7J TIL the entire crew of the USS William D Porter, a WW2 destroyer, were placed under arrest after accidentally firing a torpedo at President Roosevelt aboard the USS Iowa during training drills. Other mishaps and failings give the ship one of the worst careers in history.
a8YKA TIL that in the 1860s when the US was in Civil War, the French Emperir Napoleon III tried to place an Emperor in Mexico. After th US Civil War ended, members of the conservative Confederacy went into Mexico to support the Emperor while the rest of the US supplied arms to the liberal resistance.