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Br5Er TIL one the "hazards" of the Baja 1000 rally race are the spectators themselves, who are known to sabotage the tracks and create booby-traps. Some those include digging holes, blocking a river to create a makeshift watersplash, or burying and hiding obstacles.
LQxmZ TIL the BBC banned Johnny Rotten for outing Jimmy Saville in 1978
0wmVp TIL about the Oka Crisis, where the mayor of Oka wanted to raze Aboriginal land to expand a golf course. A documentary, called Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance gives a native’s perspective
JjP4 TIL there is a cluster of oil wells on the campus of Beverly Hills High School that generates about $300,000 of revenue per year for the school.
W7d0B TIL that Edgar Allan Poe became a writer after a failed military career. He enlisted in the US Army in 1827. He failed as a cadet at West Point, and declared his intention to become a writer. His first works (a collection of poems) were written while in the Army