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TIL - In 1992, Indy Car racer Paul Tracy took pole by 1/1000 of a second from Fittipaldi, which caused him to crash his car into the fan camping area

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GY4JE TIL that on the side of Prussia in the Napoleonic War a woman named Friederike Krüger served disguised as a soldier and after the discovery of her gender was not only NOT thrown out of the army, but was allowed to continue fighting and was even promoted several times.
Bond TIL: A 3GHz CPU takes roughly 0.33 nanoseconds to perform a simple equation. 0.33ns is to 1 second as 1 second is to 95 years.
xVV9g TIL in darts, the line that a player must stand behind is called the oche and is standardized to a distance of 7 feet, 9.25 inches horizontally from the face of the dartboard.
p86M4 TIL that bad driving led Australian Police to a $140 million drug bust in Sydney. A man had driven his drug-filled van into an empty patrol car, then sped off. Police caught him an hour later. They found 270 kg of meth in the van.
m1rvP TIL: before 1993, there were only two colors of visible light LEDs. The invention of the blue LED changed everything.