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TIL in 2010 Lewis Hamilton paid over $300,000 for his Formula 1 licence

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16prV TIL at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall of Sweden was the first athlete to be disqualified from the Olympics for drug use, after anti-dopng regulations were introduced by the IOC the previous year.
ol1Y TIL that when Fibonacci created his number sequence, he didn’t realise it described all sorts of aspects in nature.
9W4m TIL that “if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple.”
4l1R TIL the name of the music genre in the Star Wars universe is called Jizz.
ADJyn TIL that the Zeppelin company is still alive and still producing airships