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TIL Lewis Hamilton has won the British Grand Prix 9 times. The next most successful drivers at the event are Jim Clark and Alain Prost, who have each won it 5 times.

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mgRY TIL that in South Asia widowed women were once routinely burned alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres. A British general outlawed it, saying “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them.”
wrpW TIL that when diagnosed with a terminal illness, most doctors just kill themselves.
P5dg TIL that when Bruce Lee was young he came to America because he had a hit out on him for defeating an opponent with connections to a crime organization.
8ajoZ TIL that there are ancient languages that are considered untranslatable or ‘extinct’ because we have no descendant languages to use as a frame of reference for translation. One example is the Etruscan language of Italy that belonged to people who lived in Italy before the Romans.
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