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TIL in 1988 NASCAR used falsified drug tests to keep a driver with AIDS (Tim Richmond) from driving.

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p8464 TIL the tongue twister "She sells Seashells by the seashore' is about Mary Anning, a woman who sold "curios" which were small fossils at a popular seashore. She went on to discover the Ichthyosaurs and helped discover the Plesiosaurus.
5YvvP TIL of Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns or gray towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence.
6ZvZ TIL that nearly all vultures in India have died due to eating corpses of animals recently treated with the drug diclofenac. In a butterfly effect, there is now a major rabies problem, with an annual cost of US$26 billion per year.
XZ7k TIL a species of tiger moths effectively jams bats’ echolocation by producing up to 4,500 clicks per second. This jamming is the most effective prey defense against bats ever documented, reducing their success rate tenfold.
YKYG TIL that is legal to use your feet to hit the ball in volleyball