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TIL: The sand around the Bahrain International Circuit is glued down to stop it from blowing onto the track during Formula 1 races.

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vPj0x TIL Simply calmly treading the water in a rip tide can return you to shore in 3 minutes, because rip currents are really whirlpools, according to an oceanography professor's study that sensors to analyze the flow of wave water. (Source: nps.edu, 2010)
DYRV TIL Michael Palin once accidentally took his wife’s passport when he went to France, but the Immigration officer let him in as he assumed it perfectly normal that Michael Palin would be dressed as a woman.
W0y9 TIL there is a banned Pepsi and Doritos commercial that used Doritos as communion wafers and Pepsi as sacramental wine
wpgW TIL that Telemarketing companies use robot voices that will deny that they are robots when asked, but it is actually a person with a thick accent and a sound board
rQR0 TIL The longest work of fiction ever written is three million words long and six times longer than War and Peace, as of July 2013. It is a Super Smash Bros. Brawl fanfic.