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TIL that f1 tires are only designed to last 50 miles

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awdD9 TIL researchers have observed that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. The rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web.
pbNO TIL Until 1616 coffee was essentially a monopoly run by Yemen. Merchants were forbidden to sell live coffee plants or seeds. That changed when Pieter van der Broecke, a Dutch merchant, stole coffee seeds and brought them back to Holland. 40 years later coffee had traveled as far as Sri Lanka.
ne91d TIL the cure for leprosy was developed by an Irishman in Trinity College, Dublin in the 1950s
OKy6 TIL inhabitants of North Sentinel Island have been there for 60,000ish years, remain completely untouched by modern civilization and kill outsiders who get too close.
X0wr TIL: British spies used to pretend to be stupid, absentminded, tourists. Hiding sketches of military installations in the drawings of butterflies and rock striations.