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TIL F1 Driver Lewis Hamilton's steering wheel cost $100k.

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VBpBD TIL Around 2200 BC, a drought lasting about 100 years started that has been hypothesized to have caused the collapse of the first generation of human civilizations, including those in the Indus Valley, Old Kingdom Egypt, Liangzhu Civilization in China, and the Akkadian Empire in Sumeria.
j6xJX TIL Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna lost his left leg...twice
xWxw TIL that childhood trauma (like being emotionally neglected or losing a parent) increases the likelihood of the adult onset of chronic disease like cancer, heart disease, and mental illness along with being more likely to be violent, have their lives shortened by 20 years, be an alcoholic, and more.
1aaB4 TIL that the first motion picture came through the technology of series photography by the British American photographer Eadweard Muybridge between 1872 and 1877.
8RYZ TIL in 1994 the Surgeon General was fired for advocating drug legalization and masturbation (being part of human sexuality)