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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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4XGG5 TIL that the phrase “God helps those who help themselves” is not stated verbatim in the Bible. The phrase is not even biblical in origin.
1aM64 TIL that Herbivore Men is a term used in Japan to describe men who have no interest in getting married or finding a girlfriend.
JYyB8 TIL a 98-Year Old Mother Moved Into Same Nursing Home as Her 80-Year Old Son to Take Care of Him
X0kwD TIL there that there is a Township in Ontario which has 61 letters, as it consists of the names of every village and hamlet in its borders. Most Ontario Townships and forced-amalgamated rural towns simply use the name of one of the communities as the official legal name.
XEaEk TIL archaeologists discovered a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle that had traces of at least 5 psychoactive compounds including the ingredients for ayahuasca: cocaine, benzoylecgonine, harmine, bufotenine, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as well as wood tablets to grind substances and a wooden snuffing tube.