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TIL the 1979 Daytona 500 ended in a fight on national TV

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Bmdy TIL Long-distance swimming is unique among the world’s various athletic competitions. It is one of very few endurance sports where there are women’s records that beat men’s records under equal conditions, especially as the distances increases.
LkldZ TIL the English word weird originally meant 'having the power to control fate', which is why Shakespeare named his witches in Macbeth The Weird Sisters. Later depictions of them dressed in odd and strange ways led to the current definition of the word.
poKp TIL that EVE Online, a huge space-themed MMO, had an online player battle so big that it lasted 21 hours, costing an theoretical real-world value of $330,000 in microtransactions, and had been the largest recorded player vs. player battle in history. It is known as the Bloodbath of B-R5RB.
mxD8x TIL in 2001 Stan Lee was given the opportunity to re-imagine DC's Justice League and he made Batman black, Wonder Woman Hispanic and The Flash a teenage girl.
OG0OY TIL about the Witches Well, a (now) dry fountain installed outside Edinburgh Castle, in 1894, to memorialize the thousands of victims, mostly women, accused of witchcraft who were burned at the stake, nearby. It is the only such memorial to these victims in Scotland.