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TIL there's a town in Maine called China

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gMpM9 TIL about John Britten. He and his small team built a motorcycle out of his garage that would defeat major manufacturers like Honda and Ducati at major races as well as break several world records. He designed and fabricated almost every component from scratch.
ZOrY TIL Ferrari and Mercedez keep blueprints to every car they’ve ever made and will produce parts for them if you need one repaired.
16a8V TIL in 1969, top composer Louis Andriessen and others disrupted a Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra concert with nutcrackers and bicycle horns, giving leaflets about the lack of Dutch new music in the orchestra's programming. They did a week in jail but sparked some Dutch music scene change.
vPMQD TIL "Me at the zoo" is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, recognized as the first video uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube. As of April 2025, the video has received more than 355 million views.
0w8my TIL the Road Runner in the original Looney Tunes never left the road. Every single scene he was in always had him standing or running on a road.