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TIL Keke Rosberg won the Formula One World Championship in 1982 despite winning only one race.

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rRYkM TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it
XE8pP TIL that the voice of Batman on TV was done by the diminutive actor, Olan Soule. Soule had a great voice that belied his small stature, and had worked in radio for years. Early on, he was typecast, usually as a lab tech, hotel clerk, or even a reporter. He voiced Batman for 15 years.
D1Mop TIL in 2001 Armin Meiwes put up an ad asking for "a young well-built man, who wanted to be eaten". a man responed to his ad and agreed to be eaten. They met, and Meiwes started mutilating and eating him alive while the victim was reading a star trek novel
GY1o7 TIL the crowd noise heard in Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” was added in post-production. The inmates were actually quiet during the song, fearing reprisal from the guards
Omw7 TIL Old Faithful is no longer ‘faithful’ - as recent geological activity has caused its eruptions to be much more irregular and unpredictable