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TIL ESPN 8: the Ocho is real now

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nWGpb TIL that when F1 driver Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix, becoming the first ever Mexican driver to win an F1 race, the organizers didn't have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the Mexican hat dance. After that, Rodriguez always traveled with a record of the anthem with him
en4J TIL Since the year 2000 The Red Hot Chili Peppers have donated ¼ of their touring profits to charity
VBRDB TIL the term "care package" was originally invented by the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE), an NGO established in 1945, and the term is still a registered trademark of that organisation
Gg0E TIL Sweden has the highest rape statistic in Europe by far, and 3rd highest in the Statistics recovered of the world.
9YKPG TIL that during cold war, CIA conducted a $350 million cost secret project in 1974 called Project Azorian to recover a soviet submarine K-129 sunken in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean. It recovered only 1/3rd of the submarine, but the research lead to great advances in deep ocean drilling and mining.