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TIL, After a shockingly unexpected race at the Formula 1 1977 Austrian GP, Australian Alan Jones won. But as no one expected it, the organisers didn't have the Australian national anthem to play. Their solution? They got a drunk Austrian Spectator to play Happy Birthday on the trumpet instead.......

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mNgo TIL there is a Ninja Turtles manga wherein the Turtles all wear speedos, Bebop flashes and molests women, and April’s friend Irma is a busty babe
Wk1VX TIL that with our current fastest space vehicle it would take 81,000 years to reach the nearest star system. We have quite a ways to go before interstellar colonization outside of our solar system is possible.
n6Zb TIL Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s
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