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TIL the black paint band around a windshield is actually there to keep the sun from degrading the windshield adhesive

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yXMJ TIL of the “electrolaser”, a real world directed-energy weapon which fires laser-guided lightning bolts. When fired, a laser forms a channel of supercharged plasma out of the surrounding air, creating a path for the lightning and also causing a sonic boom.
E1RVX TIL that the 1971 Italian Grand Prix was the closest Formula 1 race ever - the winner was 0.01 seconds ahead of the runner-up, the 5th-place driver was only 0.61 seconds behind the winner, and the lead changed 26 times, with 8 different drivers holding the lead at some stage
lLwG TIL that there is a programming language called INTERCAL which have keywords like IGNORE, PLEASE , FORGET. If you don’t use PLEASE enough times while coding,Compiler rejects the code.
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