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TIL Australia had chariot races in the 1930s but instead of horses, they used motorcycles

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vOD8 TIL George Washington has over $300,000 in overdue library fines.
0dRo1 TIL of The Beast of Gévaudan a creature with "formidable teeth and immense tail", believed to have attacked 610 people, resulting in 500 deaths between 1764 and 1767 in the Margeride Mountains of south-central France.
Rkr1 TIL There are 8000 nerve endings in the clitoris, dedicated almost exclusively to female pleasure. The penis only has 4000.
b9yo9 TIL four new species of epaulette walking sharks were recently discovered off the coast of Australia and Papua New Guinea which are able to travel short distances over land because of their ability to walk using their pectoral fins and live in low to no oxygen conditions for extended periods of time
x6kWw TIL that a form of congenital groin cysts is linked to a "tenfold increase" in schizophrenia prevalence. Link is SFW - searching for "hidradenitis" is not.