The Quandt family, one of the richest in Germany and the largest shareholder of BMW, took over scores of Jewish businesses and used tens of thousands of slave laborers at its factories during Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

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Wasabi originated as a means to kill E. coli bacteria.

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The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in China, killing an estimated 830,000 people.

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Due to a lack of family and friends in attendance at his funeral, the pallbearers of Lee Harvey Oswald’s casket were reporters.

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Hugh Hefner’s original name for Playboy was “Stag Party”.

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