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TIL that 1992 James May was sacked from Autocar magazine after it was revealed he had hidden an acrostic message in an end of year issue which read “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it’s a real pain in the arse.”

mxQKE TIL that if a diesel engine can draw fuel from an unintended source, like excess combustible gas that is in the air, it will have a runaway and experience overspeeding at RPMs of up to 10X the engines rated capacity.
N76r6 TIL about Nasubi, a contestant on a Japanese game show who was forced to live alone, naked, in a small room and required to enter contests in magazines to provide him with physical objects, such as food and cloths. He never knew he was on TV as the producers had lied to him. Show ran for 15 months.
gMjPX TIL Melungeons are any of numerous "tri-racial isolate" groups of people of the Southeastern United States. They did not exhibit characteristics that can be classified as those of a single racial phenotype.
X0M9k TIL that during his first election, John Nance Garner was opposed in the primary by Mariette Rheiner. Following Garner's win in the primaries, the two began dating and married in 1895. Mariette went on to serve as Second Lady of the United States during her husband's tenure as vice president.
16k6r TIL that James Michael Tyler initially got the part of Gunther in Friends because he knew how to work a coffee machine and would look authentic when working in the background.