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TIL that because of a constitution error, North Dakota technically never met the requirements of statehood, and until 2012 was technically never a state.

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vPpL4 TIL the constant mash and tug of starts and finishes is strong enough to detach the retina from drag racers' eyeballs. In the 1970s and 1980s some drag racers were knocked unconscious inside the cockpit by a horsepower-caused recoil dubbed “tire shake”
8Xaa TIL: More than one study has found that chronic (long-term) whiplash tends not to exist in countries where there’s no expectation of compensation for it.
wL1e6 TIL If you eat beetroot the body has difficulty in breaking down betalain, the chemical that gives it its red colour. When you go to the toilet chances are your urine will be red/pink in colour and is called beeturia.
DQyg TIL that during WW2, American and Australian troops developed a hybrid version of their respective types of football. To make the game fair to both sides, players were awarded a mark after either a caught kick or a thrown pass. The game was known as Austus.
novW TIL a 1984 contestant on the game show “Press My Luck” used his stop-motion VCR to memorize the patterns used on the game board. He won $110,237 in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show.