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TIL Mitch and Dallas Seavey, father and son dog mushers, are respectively the oldest and youngest winners of the Iditarod dogsled race. From 2012 to 2017, together they won six straight races.

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j61Gn TIL about "Slack Fill" lawsuits, suits aimed at food companies for packing their food only a fraction of the each container's capacity. Most of these are class-action suits and the majority of the U.S. suits are filed from Northern California. In fact lawyers call San Francisco the "Food Court".
LD4Z TIL In 2009, The Sun attacked Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, but in doing so misspelled the name themselves
a8j7b TIL Ludwig von Beethoven's associates used notebooks to hold conversations with the composer after he became functionally deaf, to the point where historians can roughly piece together whole conversations the composer had based on what was written.
WJ6B TIL in 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
vPl4L TIL that Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand was a French foreign minister who served the Ancien regime, the French Revolution (surviving The Terror), Napoleon's Empire, the Restoration, Charles X, the July Revolution, and Louis Phillipe. He was extremely corrupt and helped to overthrow three governments.