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TIL Adrian Newey, the chief technical officer of Red Bull Racing, was expelled from Repton School after he maxed out an audio mixer during a concert and shattered the building's 11th century stained glass windows

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Qpak TIL after the first version of Word was shipped, Microsoft sent the whole developer team to Cancun on vacation
70Mp TIL there is a satellite orbiting Earth that is predicted to re-enter the atmosphere in 8.4 million years, carrying a message addressed to the beings/humans and civilizations of the future.
697Dw TIL the creator of "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" died in a police standoff after shooting a cop. After he took to random men hostage and barricaded himself, his cousin - Snoop Dogg - tried and failed to talk him down.
rNAaw TIL the state of Texas keeps a database of over 500 executed inmate's last words going back to the 1980's
e0y4b TIL Przewalski's Horses once thought to be the only true wild Horses never to be domesticated, are actually descended from domesticated Horses that were feralized thousands of years ago