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TIL the Darlington Raceway aka “The Track Too Tough to Tame” is asymmetrical not becuase it makes racing on it more challenging, but because a local refused to move his minnow pond out of the way

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a8AvA TIL The origin of 10,000 steps a day started as a marketing slogan by a Japanese company when they made the world's first pedometer in the 1960s named Manpo-kei, or “10,000 steps meter." The science behind 10,000 steps a day is based on this catchy ad.
wOJE TIL the reason for sightings of Bloody Mary, is because of something called the ‘Caputo effect’
LQDrm TIL about the fall of Alan Magee. A B-17 ball turret gunner in World War II, Magee fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute when his plane was destroyed by flak. He smashed through the roof of a French railroad station, survived, and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.
dA8Z TIL that almost 15% of Rio de Janeiro’s population is gay
gr5k7 TIL about Obelisk, a Queen's Guard horse, who used to lure pigeons to him by dropping oats from his mouth. When they came close, he would stomp them to death. He was eventually taken for additional 'psychological training'.