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TIL that F1 drivers pee inside their suits during the race

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Ve7Z TIL during New Zealand’s first rugby match vs England, an English player’s shorts got ripped off. The NZ players formed a circle so he could change. Another Englishman picked up the ball and scored. Later the English demanded an apology after NZ criticised the referee, which was “unsportsmanlike”.
LBEr TIL In early 1943, an underground Jewish resistance was formed at Treblinka, a Nazi concentration camp. Some 700 Jews launched the uprising in August 1943. Only 200 managed to escape the camp and only 70 are known to have made it until the end of the war. Treblinka was closed after the uprising.
kOAxm TIL that the inventor of the cereal Apple Jacks is currently a professor of biological engineering at MIT and invented the cereal as a summer intern
J1OA1 TIL about Anelasma squalicola, a little-studied barnacle that recently pivoted from a seawater filter feeding lifestyle to a parasitic form that subsists on just one Norwegian species of shark.
kO4EB TIL that 2-dollar bills are actually still being made. The main reason they're so rare is not because they were discontinued, but because people think they're valuable and hoard them.