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TIL that, after being disqualified from the 1953 Le Mans race, driver Duncan Hamilton found a local bar in town and got drunk. Shortly thereafter, officials ruled that he could enter. Hamilton subsequently won the race.

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eMnJ TIL in 1993 a student at UPenn was charged with violating the university’s racial harassment policy after calling a black woman a “water buffalo”. The university claimed it was racist: “a water buffalo is a dark primitive animal that lives in Africa.” Water Buffaloes come from Asia.
4AMX TIL there’s a medical condition that causes its sufferers to sweat blood.
1MKP TIL the only three countries in the whole world that don’t grant ANY paid family leave are The United States of America, Oman and Papua New Guinea.
Rayj TIL A 14 year old Roman Emperor invented the whoopee cushion and used it on his guests at dinner parties. He was assassinated by age 18.
vP1Z8 TIL that there are more trees on earth (3 trillion) than stars in the Milky Way (100-400 billion).