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TIL at top speed, the Bugatti Veyron’s tires will last 15 minutes. However, it will run out of fuel in 12.

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Za1o TIL That Mao ordered the Chinese to eradicate mosquitos, rats, flies, and sparrows. Because the sparrows ate seeds, he felt they were eating unearned food, thus, they represented Capitalism. They killed so many sparrows the Eco imbalance contributed to a famine that killed 20 million people.
n0ob TIL Muhammad Ali has a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but his star is the only one to be mounted on a vertical surface, out of deference to his request that his prophets name not be walked upon.
7rlZL TIL that although the candiru fish is infamous for entering human urethras, there is only one documented case of this ever happening, and the accuracy of this case is highly disputed.
DorY TIL Lockheed was originally “Loughead” but changed later to prevent mispronunciation
N7NQJ TIL from 1935-1964 in the US all liquor bottles were required to have the phrase “Federal Law Forbids Sale or Reuse of this bottle”. This was done in an effort to discourage the reuse of empty bottles for selling moonshine, the sale of which was very common during the Prohibition era.