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TIL NASCAR is Rooted in Prohibition Bootlegging

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8evP4 TIL - The chicxulub asteroid that killed the dinosaurs created a magnitude 12 earthquake
RB91 TIL Dwight Burch, a black waiter working at Apple-bee’s, sued the restaurant after repeated harassment by a black manager and won a $40,000 settlement. The black manager repeatedly referred to him as a ‘tar baby’ and ‘Black monkey’ during his three months at the restaurant.
0wnRM TIL Joaquin Phoenix grew up in a cult involved with pedophilia and his parents traveled to Venezuela to recruit followers (not knowing about the pedophilia) - The Children of God
X0axj TIL about François de Civille, a 16th-century Frenchman who survived being shot in the head, buried alive, thrown out a window, and left in a dung heap for three days before being rescued by his cousin.
XgZ8 TIL in 2009 a Man Who Was an Expert on How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico Was Kidnapped in Mexico After Giving a Lecture On “How To Not Be Kidnapped in Mexico”