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TIL Jann Mardenborough became a professional race car driver by beating 90,000 people in the video game gran turismo.

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gyv4 TIL Saudi Arabia promotes practice of marriage between close relatives which has produced high level of several genetic disorder including thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, spinal muscular atrophy, deafness and muteness.
J19y4 TIL what a LITHOPEDION is. It’s also called a “stone baby”— it happens when a baby dies during an ectopic pregnancy and instead of the body expelling it, the body calcifies it and it basically turns into stone- the baby can stay in the body for several DECADES and go unnoticed.
aKKA TIL in 2004 a customer in Las Vegas walked into an In-N-Out and ordered a 100x100. That’s 100 beef patties and 100 slices of cheese, which the restaurant obliged as until then they accommodated orders of any size at extra cost. Since then In-N-Out changed it’s rules and capped the burger at 4x4.
EW5x TIL Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before WWII because the original Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 the lawsuit was cancelled by the Nazis.
eB7k TIL Elmo has been called the “Little Red Menace” by Sesame Street purists because he takes screen time away from other beloved characters.