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TIL that F1 drivers pee inside their suits during the race

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Lky1v TIL Hitler's personal nurse revealed in 2005 that the death of Blondi the German Shepherd affected people in the bunker more than Eva Braun's suicide
77mL TIL all federal agencies are required by law to purchase certain supplies (e.g. office supplies) exclusively from companies employing only the blind or severely disabled.
KON6w TIL that Romania is the country with the highest rate of home ownership in he world: more than 96% of the population owns a house or an apartment. At the beginning of the 1990s, after the fall of the Communist party, the state sold each tenant the house he or she occupied at a very low cost.
AN1e4 TIL about the Mexican Lapdog, an extinct dog breed that measured only 18 cm (7.1 in) from the snout to the base of the tail as an adult.
eGkD TIL Europeans feared eating tomatoes for 200 years, because when wealthy Europeans using pewter plates, high in lead content, ate tomatoes off the plates, the high acidity in tomatoes would cause the fruit to leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning