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TIL After crashing during the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna's excuse was that the "wall must have moved". Nobody believed him, until he insisted it was checked. The wall had moved less than half an inch nearer the track as a result of an earlier crash.

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68xJ TIL that so many millions of people died so quickly in the influenza epidemic of 1918 that when people laid them out for their funerals in the parlor, the room got the nickname the “Death Room.” The Ladies Home Journal suggested changing the name to “Living Room” instead, to honor the living.
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OG5M6 TIL: The Book of Swindles was released in the 16th century and it can be used as a way to avoid scams or as a guidebook to commit them. It categorizes scams into 24 groups, such as Marriage, kidnapping, Women, government corruption, gambling, poetry scams, alchemy, sorcery, and illicit passion.