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TIL NASCAR is Rooted in Prohibition Bootlegging

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VBnoB TIL that pilots can clearly see the curvature of the earth, especially those flying at higher altitudes
Ypbbd TIL that in August 2019, the US Army released a report stating that the country and its military would experience a total collapse within the next two decades due to collapses in the country's aging power grid and food supply, as well as the increased risk of infectious disease outbreaks globally.
d8GxQ TIL an American in the early 1900s dredged the Sacred Cenote in Chichén Itzá and illegally smuggled to the US nearly 30,000 Mayan artifacts found at the bottom of the cenote. The bulk of the find is in a storage room in the Peabody Museum at Harvard.
Zpk5o TIL that a parasitic flatworm forms pulsing, brightly coloured sacs, called broodsacs, inside the tentacles of snails. It’s zombifying, caterpillar-shaped parasite pod that exists solely to trick birds into spreading the flatworm.
e54b TIL - Truckers throw out gallon jugs of urine and bags filled with feces out their windows, and it’s an actual problem.