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TIL Koenigsegg uses only one car for crash testing. They keep the carbon fibre body and rebuild and repair it after each crash test.

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Oob57 TIL about Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Welsh to hold the title Prince of Wales. Owain was the leader of a fierce and long-running war of independence. Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was neither captured nor betrayed, ignored royal pardons and vanished after 1412.
P1XvG TIL that the composers of the Amen Break, which is one the most sampled track in history, received no royalties because the statute of limitations for copyright infringement had passed.
XZD8 TIL that according to a Pew Research study performed in 2010 atheists knew more in general about different religions than religious people did, with Jews coming in close second and Mormons also close by in third
xVbok TIL of "The Human Library" : A project that allows you to go to a library and borrow/check out real people who have been through hard times and listen to their stories.
vZk8 TIL that when Caesar first set foot on Africa, he tripped over, but saved himself from embarrassment by shouting, “Africa, I have tight hold of you!”