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TIL Caitlyn Jenner was a race car driver.

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w5vM TIL: That the US national anthem melody was composed by a British gentleman’s club and the song was about drinking and sex.
yVZwe TIL that in January 2019, a sound installation powered by solar batteries was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play Toto’s “Africa” on an indefinite constant loop.
6k4J TIL of the Sentinelese, an indigenous population that lives on North Sentinel Island. They have lived there virtually untouched by modern civilization for 1000’s of years. Any intruders on their island have been met with lethal hostility.
jOYQ TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral
kaQd TIL That a would-be suicide bomber was killed after a spam text message set off his explosives