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TIL that Yamaha developed various engines for F1 teams between 1989 and 1997

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BrxKb TIL that Malaria is theorized to have killed half of all humans who have ever lived (Approx 50 Billion people).
D1XRe TIL the melody of "Love Me Tender" is taken straight from a civil war ballad
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VBLlp TIL that before there was the Silk Road, the Maritime Jade Road was established in Asia in the second century BCE starting from Taiwan travelling southwest to the Philippines and reaching all the way to Arabia