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TIL that Ruf, a German auto maker who bases their cars on existing Porsche models found popularity in video games as Porsche had an exclusive licensing agreement with EA

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R194 TIL that the always bubbly Who’s Line Is It Anyway star Wayne Brady suffers from severe depression. After having a mental breakdown at 42 years old and Robin Williams death in 2014 made him realize how important it was to speak publicly about facing depression
KEMB TIL: The Bugis people of Indonesia recognise 5 genders, among them is a “Bissu”, an intersexed individual(not male not women) who has the duties of a sorcerer and is regarded highly within the society
Brp9L TIL about proffesional French "flatulist" Joseph Pujol, aka Le Pétomane, who discovered as a young man that he could suck air into his anus and fart on command. He was the highest earning French entertainer of his time.
4B4o TIL when someone asked British PM Margaret Thatcher if she was concerned about Germany beating England in football, she said “No, we already beat them twice this century at their national game.”
5Y8y9 TIL the first manned balloon flight in the United States would have failed if the pilot and the passenger had not removed all extra weight from the craft including their clothes and the contents of their bladders.