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TIL that the same side of the moon is always facing the Earth.

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DQ1Aj TIL about Cliff Young, a 61-year-old farmer who won the 543 mile (875 k) endurance race from Sydney to Melbourne. Wearing work clothes, he ran without sleeping for five days. Surprised to learn there was a cash reward he shared it with the other competitors. Young credited his win to herding sheep.
R7Ll8 TIL Self-driving cars can cruise to avoid paying to park. When you factor in electricity, depreciation, wear and tear and maintenance, cruising costs around 50 cents an hour. This is still cheaper than parking, even in many smaller towns.
nWBgB TIL that the Mashco Piro and the Yine were once a single Peruvian tribe that was split in 1894 when the rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald enslaved it. The Mashco Piro descended from the people who managed to escape, while the Yine descended from the ones who failed.
ne6R7 TIL A bad grape harvest in 1985 led to Austrian wine producers adding antifreeze to their wines in order to lessen the sour taste, collapsing the Austrian wine market.
baXp TIL that an assassin failed to kill Franz Ferdinand because he didn’t realise there was a ten second delay on the grenade, and then proceeded to try and commit suicide, but his cyanide pill was expired and the river he jumped into was 10cm deep