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TIL that in the 60’s Ford was in talks to buy Ferrari but when Ferrari backed out at the last minute it enraged Ford so they built the GT40 to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It went on to win 4 consecutive times.

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b6llp TIL blood oranges get their color from the pigment anthocyanin. This pigment needs low nightly temperatures to form. Anthocyanin is not commonly found in a majority of citrus fruits.
6Erd8 TIL on Kenta Kobashi faced Kensuke Sasaki in a wrestling match where Yoshihiro Takayama, on commentary stated “I hope this never ends.” This was during a chop exchange fans were witness to. Over 180 chops across the chest were exchanged between the two men for nearly 5 minutes.
YDXB TIL Game of Thrones has a 6 million dollar budget. Per episiode.
X0rk TIL an 18th Century pirate named Calico Jack stole a ship and ran off with another man’s wife, Anne Bonny, who dressed like a man to hide her gender. Among Jack’s crew was another woman dressed as a man, Mary Read. When captured and facing execution, both women were pregnant and were thus pardoned.
b9jep TIL: That the Latin word for intoxicated is crapulence.