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TIL Bob Seger’s only #1 single is “Shakedown” on the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack

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78ZAr TIL Ferruccio Lamborghini, owner of a successful factory of tractors in Emilia Romagna, started producing his own supercars in the 60s because he was not satisfied of his Ferrari since the clutch was bad, and he had a struggle with Enzo Ferrari
vPmYK TIL soul music pioneer Curtis Mayfield was paralysed from the neck down during a live performance in 1990, and still managed to produce an album in 1996
b6l17 TIL that the flag of Jamaica is currently the only national flag that does not contain a shade of the colors red, white, or blue.
M7eea TIL: When bug zappers electrocute mosquitos and other insects, they spray a mist containing their body parts up to 2 meters. Some even believe that that residue can transmit the same diseases they carry.
b6nrE TIL about mammoth hunters, people in Russia's far north who hunt for and sell "ice ivory": the tusks of mammoths. Some will illegally utilise firefighting equipment to melt ice and dig huge tunnels into the ground in search of remains.