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TIL the Aussies used to hold chariot races, Ancient Rome style, but with motorcycles instead of horses.

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BrP4K TIL of the Eyes of Sibiu, a custom in the city of Sibiu in Transylvania in which roofs are adorned with eye shaped features, creating the feeling perpetually being watched.
rwLx TIL that the Ostrich-Egg Globe may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.
neYXB TIL that the common method for a spacecraft to shift between two orbits is called a Hohmann Transfer, and that the guy who calculated it (in 1925) was inspired by a science fiction book written in 1897, which gave a generally correct explanation of the concept of orbit trajectory
RlBQ TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was forced to resign for publicly promoting sex education about masturbation as a means to reduce teen pregnancy
XE6ME TIL steel doesn't need to melt to lose it's strength. At 50% of the melting temperature it already loses 90% structural integrity.