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TIL that F1 drivers lose approximately 2 to 3 kilograms of their weight during a race due to sweating

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ng5G TIL Napoleon Bonaparte was 5'7" which was an average male height in his lifetime. His supposed “shortness” was British propaganda that is still generally believed to this day.
p8BMO TIL in the middle ages priests treated rabies by sticking religious ornaments, heated until red-hot, onto bite wounds. This actually worked because they were unknowingly cauterising and sterilising the wound.
EgvJX TIL of the existence of a popular UK character called Mr Blobby. Who has been in television since 1992 and has a No. 1 single.
M4r7 TIL that in 1999, Google was almost sold for $750,000 because the founders needed more time to study their schoolwork.
4Mb6 TIL that Shawn Fanning of Napster fame wore a Metallica t-shirt to an MTV Awards show in which Ulrich Lars was in attendance. When he was asked where he got it he said “a friend shared it with him.”