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TIL that all F1 races have had the same safety car driver since the year 2000. Bernd Mayländer has driven over 700 laps total in all the F1 circuits around the world.

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xVjbb TIL Charondas - a Greek lawgiver - once issued a law saying that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived to the Assembly after hunting with a knife still attached to his belt. He committed suicide in order to uphold his own law.
OGLVe TIL White Star Line billed the families for uniforms of staff who died on the Titanic
yB6M TIL that two psychologists, inexperienced in interrogation, were paid $80 million for developing and running the CIA torture program.
xxXD TIL that “electrocution” is a portmanteau of electric execution, created due to the invention of the electric chair ca. 1889.
vGZB TIL: There is a moving company operating in NYC, staffed entirely by US Veterans and that they bring Military Discipline to moving your stuff.