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TIL the CEO of Toyota entered the 2009 24 Hours of Lemans under a fake name and drove 2 different Lexus race cars, coming in 3rd and 4th in class

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nY5r TIL - The Yukon Territory recognizes the moose by its common name… the “Rubber-nosed Swamp Donkey”.
9Kyp TIL Disney has credited their coffee guy in 7 of their films
oROEY TIL that the Bazacle Milling Company was a joint-stock company of watermills founded in Toulouse, France. Starting from the 14th century, shares of the capital were freely bought and sold, and dividends were paid in flour until 1840. The company was nationalised in 1946
gr8KA TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers. His wife committed committed suicide.
4XgAN TIL Antony Hopkins composed a waltz in 1964 that was only released years later. The famous actor was afraid that nobody would like it and therefore never got to hear it being played up until 2011 thanks to André Rieu - a Dutch violinist who got sent the music sheets by Hopkins' wife.