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TIL Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyota's founder and Chairman of the company, raced a prototype of the Lexus LFA under the pseudonym Morizo Kinoshita during the 2009 Nürburgring 24 Hours.

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0d4wv TIL that between 2016 and 2019, there was not a single bookstore in the Bronx. Even today there is only one in the entire borough of 1.5 million people.
yQlQV TIL in 1973 convicted child killer Lester Eubanks was taken out shopping unescorted as a reward for good behavior. He did not return to his scheduled pick-up location and has been on the run ever since.
5y7p TIL that during prohibition, the US government ordered poison be added to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government mandated more potent poison and it killed as many as 10,000 people.
DGWv TIL: Dr Barry Marshal was convinced that H. pylori bacteria caused stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went on to win a Nobel prize
VMM88 TIL It’s illegal to whistle in Petrolia, Ontario