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TIL BMW drifted a M5 for 232.5 continuous miles, which included a stuntman refueling the car from a tandem-drifting tanker.

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D87V TIL that human saliva contains natural painkiller which is nearly six times more potent than morphine.
6rOm TIL that Jack Nicholson passed up the role of Michael Corleone in the Godfather. “Back then I believed that Indians should play Indians and Italians should play Italians.”
4XjMN TIL that flowers are physically growing with darker coloured petals nowadays due to their rapid adaptation to combat the suns radiation from the thinning ozone layer.
69PGX TIL that Denmark still uses the krone as its currency and does not use the euro, having negotiated the right to continue to opt out from participation, even after the criteria obliging adoption of the Euro are met.
0dXVy TIL There are consumers who are known as Harbingers of Failure. They have a knack for buying products that turn out to be market flops. "when the harbingers buy a product at least three times, it’s really bad news: The probability of success for that product drops 56 percent."