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TIL Enzo Ferrari sold his house to buy his 1st race car.

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Ogx4 TIL that death row inmate Sean Sellers was executed despite a Court of Appeal ruling that he may be “factually innocent” but that “innocence alone is not sufficient to grant federal relief”
mb0M TIL James Buchanan, the 5th American President regularly bought slaves in order to free them.
awRW0 TIL there are 14 sailors stuck on an oil tanker off the coast of the UAE for nearly 4 years due to their company abandoning them and the ship.
9wY5Q TIL in the US, courts ruled that under US Labor Law, disruption of property rights was "necessary in order to safeguard the right to collective bargaining." The right to a labor union and workers rights had some prerogative over certain aspects of property rights in relation to employer's property.
NXG7b TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in ww2