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TIL that four drivers were killed over the 11 races of the 1958 Formula 1 season. The eventual world champion was also killed in a crash shortly after the season ended.

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nWrdb TIL that Benjamin Franklin did not suggest a Turkey as the national bird of the US. He instead wrote a letter criticizing the use of a Bald Eagle as the icon of a fraternal society, claiming the bird was "lazy," "a rank coward," "of bad moral character," and that a Turkey was much more respectable.
78pBP TIL 25 supercars that were seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator were sold for a combined $27M at auction in Switzerland in 2019
xVWl7 TIL Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. never completed high school. He was such a child prodigy that he skipped grades and enrolled in college at the age of 15. He later received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Bachelor of Divinity and his PhD in theology.
LkJdm TIL of Helen Foley, a 7th grade English teacher who encouraged the class clown to join public speaking activities. Rod Serling eventually joined the debate team, wrote for the school's paper, and went onto to have a career in early radio & TV
VMBY8 As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.