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TIL that the developers of the racing simulator game Assetto Corsa were attempting to find the source of what they believed to be a bug with the in-game traction control. In reality, the "bug" was the simulation accurately recreating a real world physics problem they were unaware of.

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GAoP7 TIL that the national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.
dpmK TIL Argentina is one of the whitest counties in the world with a white population of 97%.
DQE1V TIL about Leila Denmark, an American pediatrician who was seeing patients until age 103
EgYN7 TIL Bill Murray was bitten twice by the groundhog while filming Groundhogs day. The doc who treated him declined to give him a rabies shot because he didn’t know if groundhogs were carriers. When Murray asked, “what if i get rabies?” he responded, “then we’ll know [they’re carriers], won’t we.”
OZoY TIL the Temple liberties in the City of London, founded by the Knights Templar, are exempt from the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City; when the LM tried to enter with his ceremonial swordbearer in 1668, students imprisoned the LM overnight and took his sword away.