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TIL about Formula E, an electric car variant of Formula 1. The series includes an 'attack mode' boost to give the cars more power, aswell as 'fan boost' a social media vote which finishes after the first 15 minutes of a race to give the winners an extra power boost

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P0rE TIL that the whites of human eyes evolved as a means of non-verbal communication and that dogs also rely the human sclera to pick up visual cues
R5gDw TIL Tolkien wanted to create what we would nowadays call a transmedia multiverse. "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme. The cycles should be linked and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd."
P1jpZ TIL of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society during the American Civil War that aimed to create a new country based in Havana, by expanding the Confederacy around the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
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