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

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8aG4P TIL that lyme disease was not as common in the past as it is now, and its prevalence is actually due to an explosion in the white-footed mouse population at the turn of the 20th century. This in turn coincides with the extinction of the mouse's primary ecological competitor: the passenger pigeon.
LW4Q TIL there is a modern Australian interpretation of Macbeth where the title character is a high ranking gang member in Melbourne’s underworld who tries to kill his crime boss. The prophetic vision shown to Macbeth by the three witches is depicted as a drug induced trip at a night club.
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GB55 TIL the longest American Presidential Inauguration was William Henry Harrison; over 2 hours and 8000+ words. He died a month later of pneumonia.