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

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dDLXZ TIL about humorous variations of Murphy’s law. Some best ones include: Fetridge’s law which states that important things do not happen when they are supposed to, especially when people are looking & Patrick’s theorem: If an experiment works, you are probably using the wrong equipment
N7VB1 TIL a good healthy kidney from Israel goes for about $160,000 on the black market and a kidney from India goes for $20,000
nW8GB TIL that British General Lord Cornwallis, the man who lost at Yorktown thus losing the US Revolution ended his career as Governor-General of India in July, 1805 and died there 3 months later. He is interred in Gauspur in Ghazipur in a neo-classical tomb.
X0MBP TIL that the founder of the Red Lobster chain of seafood restaurants first opened a diner called The Green Frog
yQyWX TIL After the death of the first Chinese emperor, Shi Huangdi, his second oldest son forged a letter in the emperor's name, stating that the eldest son is to commit suicide and the second oldest son would become emperor. That plan worked.