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TIL It is mandatory for every team to bolt a rectangular plank of wood to the bottom of their Formula 1 car during races.

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N75m6 TIL after successfully winning the online poll to name the ISS module 'Colbert' after Stephen Colbert, NASA went with the eighth most popular name 'Tranquility'. To honor his winning, they named the new station treadmill Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).
XGvD TIL that after losing the Civil War, 10,000 Confederates fled the United States and founded the city of Americana, Brazil, where they rebuilt their plantations and still owned slaves.
4B4o TIL when someone asked British PM Margaret Thatcher if she was concerned about Germany beating England in football, she said “No, we already beat them twice this century at their national game.”
7rElO TIL about Ernst Thälmann, leader of Germany’s radical left in the last years of the Weimar Republic, who thought the center left was a greater danger than the right.
9JWX TIL that in 1932 Australia declared war on it’s local Emus due to them eating crops. Despite Australia having better weaponry, the Emus survived and won.