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TIL - Former Formula 1 driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen drove a hearse for his family’s funeral home after leaving racing.

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jN1np TIL that while Screen Actors Guild members earn an average of $52,000 a year, the vast majority take home less than $1,000 a year from acting jobs.
wL0LE Today i learned about Great Zimbabwe, largest settlement ruins in sub-saharan Arica which also tradet with Arab-Indian states. When european colonists saw it, they claimed it was too complex to be of african origins, and ordered historians to dispute the evidence of its african history.
wLL6 TIL that Rastafaris say “I and I” because they consider all people to be equal, instead of saying “We”.
8aQXb TIL in 1974 the CIA mounted a top-secret research project, "Azorian", to recover a Soviet nuclear missile submarine that had sunk in 1968 using a grapple secretly lowered from underwater, ultimately recovering about a 3rd of the submarine and two nuclear missiles from a depth of over three miles.
16A1O TIL about the Castle Bravo nuclear test in the Marshall Islands. The explosion was twice as big as expected, causing radiation burns and sickness to residents of nearby islands. They never received compensation by the US government.