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TIL That Nascar racers lose 5-10 pounds of sweat during a race

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AjPg TIL That the word Oxymoron is a oxymoron in its self, Oxy meaning sharp and Moron meaning dull.
Nra6 TIL in 2008, while promoting a new High School Musical film , Disney had to withdraw a line of young girls underwear from the shelves after they were deemed too sexually suggestive. Why? They had the slogan “Dive in” written on the front.
x6Byk TIL Those videos with people crying after having their colorblindness cured by putting on special glasses were fake.
m7MR TIL that Heath Ledger was an exceptional chess player, winning the national junior championship in Australia at the age of 10 and was planning on directing his first feature based on The Queen’s Gambit, a book about chess when he passed away at age 28,
0wXJ5 TIL Medal of Honor recipient Edward Carter could speak five languages, fought in his first war at 15, and joined the the Spanish Civil War to fight fascists at 20 before eventually fighting in WW2. Despite his heroism in combat, he and all other black awardees would not be recognized until 1997.