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TIL that Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, home of the Grand National, has a motor racing circuit inside it which has hosted the F1 British Grand Prix five times

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b9LAZ TIL BAPE's name is supposed to be a dig at their customers. It means "A Bathing Ape in Lukewarm Water" - the lukewarm water implies that someone's been bathing too long and the water got cold, referencing the lazy opulence of the brand's customers.
yJ7e TIL a guy hung dolls from trees on an island in honour of a little girl who died, he eventually covered the whole island in dolls until he committed suicide
JnBV TIL The City of Houston is bigger than the state of New Jersey
0N95 TIL Ed O'Neil is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
XgRD TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”