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TIL Formula one race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated near death three times. In 2001 he had both legs amputated in a racing crash,in 2020 he suffered head trauma while handcycling and was in a medically induced coma, and in 2022 his home caught fire and he was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

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JYD1Q TIL about Americana, Brazil; a city founded by 10,000 Confederate ex-patriots at the conclusion of the American Civil War so that they could continue the practice of slavery, which was still legal in Brazil at the time.
Lwe9 TIL German poet “Heinrich Heine” left his entire estate to his wife, but with one condition: she had to remarry “because then there will be at least one man to regret my death.”
mJgP TIL after French soldier Jean Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that the Swedes decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, despite him never having set foot in Sweden before. The House of Bernadotte rules Sweden to this day.
epYNE TIL that the "Goldilocks Zone" isn't a fixed location; as a star ages and gets brighter, the habitable zone moves outward. This means planets that were once frozen can melt into oceans, while previously "Earth-like" planets are eventually baked dry.
a8YrA TIL British television broadcaster Sky UK trademarks the word 'Sky', anyone who uses them on other media are being sued. Such examples are Sky suing Microsoft for the name, forcing them to change Skydrive to Onedrive, and Hello Games being forced to settle to keep the name No Man's Sky