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TIL Lamborghini was founded in 1963 as a result of a feud between founder Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari. Dissatisfied with the clutch in his Ferrari, Lamborghini decided to create his own car company producing high-performance, luxury sports cars to rival Ferrari.

by whatilearned March 10, 2023, 7:05 pm

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TIL, Popular gamer Matthew Thane was shot and killed after an online feud with fellow gamer 23-year-old Alexander Baro. Alexander had gotten so angry that he drove 1,700 miles from California to Texas just to shoot and kill Matthew. After driving the 1,700 miles back home he shot and killed himself.

by whatilearned February 26, 2023, 8:44 pm

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TIL about the medieval murder of William de Cantilupe by members of his own household, and the feud that began over his late brother’s lack of genitals

by whatilearned February 1, 2023, 12:19 pm

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TIL the director of the Brown Bunny and critic Roger Ebert had a feud with Gallo calling him fat and putting a hex on his colon; Ebert responding that a colonoscopy would be more fun than watching his movie.

by whatilearned January 30, 2023, 6:08 am

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TIL Soren Kierkegaard’s first publish work was a panned review of Hans Christian Andersen. It ignited a life-long feud between the two Danes. Andersen responded by caricaturing the existentialist in “The Galoshes of Fortune,” where Kierkegaard is portrayed as an annoying parrot who makes no sense.

by whatilearned November 30, 2022, 10:50 pm

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TIL 50 cent and Ja Rule had a long running feud. In 2018, 50 cent brought 200 front row seats to a Ja Rule show via Groupon, just so the seats were left empty.

by whatilearned November 24, 2022, 9:44 am

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TIL that Evelyn Nesbit, dubbed “the world’s first supermodel” became known for her involvement in a feud between her husband Harry Thaw and architect Stanford White who drugged and assaulted her age of 16, this led to Thaw murdering White inside Madison Square Garden in 1906.

by whatilearned November 22, 2022, 3:10 pm

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Til Dave Winfield chose the San Diego Padres for his Hall of Fame logo due to differences with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner signed Winfield for $16 million unaware of a cost of living clause in the contract which raised the cost to $23 million resulting in an ongoing public feud.

by whatilearned November 12, 2022, 7:49 pm

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TIL – In 1948 the Mahindra car company struck a deal with Willy’s Overland Corp., makers of the original WW2 MB 1/4 ton utility trucks, to make a model for the Indian market. This would eventually lead to the feud with Jeep-Stellantis over similar looking vehicles.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 8:09 am

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by CopyPastaArchive February 24, 2022, 10:53 am

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TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob’s withdrawal from Vegas.

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 7:25 am

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TIL Ferruccio Lamborghini was drafted into the Italian Royal Air Force in WWII. By 1948, he went on to building affordable tractors. A feud was sparked between Ferrari and Lamborghini which motivated Ferruccio to build his own line of sports cars we know today as Lamborghinis.

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 11:53 am

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