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TIL Bill Nye, the Science Guy, holds a patent for improved point shoes to better support dancers’ feet

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J1X0m TIL Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyota's founder and Chairman of the company, raced a prototype of the Lexus LFA under the pseudonym Morizo Kinoshita during the 2009 Nürburgring 24 Hours.
9YpxM TIL that toward the end of his career, acclaimed film director Sam Peckinpah, whose work includes The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, and Straw Dogs, was so desperate for money as a result of his drug habit that he agreed to direct a movie based on the 1975 trucker novelty song "Convoy."
vE1L TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters
P1YBG TIL that Delaware has no commercial airline service to or from the state.
5Y1mR TIL hundreds of dead animal carcasses including pets were found in West Virginia in the woods. Some had been decapitated and a few had intravenous tubes inserted in their forelegs.