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TIL the first car to break the 100km/h (60mph) barrier was an electric vehicle in 1899

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QNPwL TIL what's inside a bowling ball.
4kRBb TIL: That during the 1936 Olympics, two Japanese pole-vaulters tied for second place. Instead of competing again, they cut the silver and bronze medals in half upon returning home and fused the two different halves together so that each of them had a half-silver and half-bronze medal.
mxl0v TIL that the original lyrics in Little Richard’s song “Tutti Frutti” were changed from “Tutti Frutti, Loose Booty” to “Tutti Frutti, aw rooty” because the term “Loose booty” was considered too scandalous.
oRkeK TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp.
RNRw TIL the United States Postal Service effectively “owns” the inside of your mailbox, and can issue fines for unauthorized use of it - including the personal delivery of typically mailed items.