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TIL the Nascar driver that inspired Let’s Go Brandon has no sponsors and will have to sit out the season.

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4XmNX TIL in 1781, 142 slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship. The crew claimed they were low on drinking water and had killed the slaves to save it-this claim was disputed. The slaves had been insured. The case brought major attention to abolition.
OG87 TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic is 53, and his career has outlived many of the people he parodied.
loypV TIL there's evidence the mullet haircut has been worn for thousands of years. The pilgrims described Native Americans with this type of haircut and ancient figurines from the first century show a Celtic man or deity with a mullet.
Me86B TIL in 1999 the Natural Law Party claimed that they could end the fighting in Kosovo by sending meditators and yogic flyers to the Balkans and generating a "peaceful consciousness". In fact, they managed to send a group of volunteers to Croatia to meditate there.
eGMJ TIL Bowhead whales have an average lifespan of over 200 years… That means there are whales alive today who personally witnessed humanity go from three master schooners to the modern ships we have today!!