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TIL that Winston Churchill was a major proponent of the Eugenics movement, and supported mass sterilisation

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wPBW TIL that in 1975, NASCAR were invited by Le Mans organizers to race 2 cars at the 1976 24h of Le Mans. They turned out to be surprisingly very fast, but weren’t built for endurance racing and broke down midway through the race.
x6Xdg TIL until last year (2021), gas pumps in Hawaii were not allowed to have a hands free mode.
kO9x1 TIL Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous black Scientologists, approached Scientology leader David Miscavige and asked why the religion wasn’t doing more to court black Americans. So Miscavige reached out to the Nation of Islam, and by 2010, they began promoting the benefits of Scientology.
LoQ TIL that all the actors that formed the Fellowship in LOTR got tattoos of the elvish script for “nine” to celebrate the experience of filming, apart from John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
YDw7 TIL that if you get the proper paperwork filed out, you can have your dog listed as a “Emotional Support Animal” Allowing you to bring him/her on planes and allowing him/her to live with you even if your lodging prohibits dogs.