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TIL The CEO Of McLaren Got His Start Winning Wheel Of Fortune. Zak Brown appeared on Wheel of Fortune and won $3,050. He spent all the money to buy a go-kart.

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owyW TIL three words in English use ‘w’ as a vowel: cwm, a hollow in a mountain; crwth, an instrument similar to a violin; and cwtch, a hiding place.
mxyvP TIL that although camels can drink 200 litres of water, they don't store this water in their humps, but instead in their digestion or circulatory system.
8a6nP TIL there is no constitutional requirement for a U.S. State to hold presidential elections. A State legislature can theoretically just handpick its presidential electors.
jN94p TIL Steven Seagal bragged he was immune to being choked unconscious due to his training. While trying to prove it, a stunt coordinator choked him out and Seagal voided his bowels
l7BGa TIL that after The Washington Post was acquired in 2013, one of the proposed ideas was to install a feature that allowed a reader to remove the vowels from an article they didn't enjoy, the idea being that another reader would have to pay to reinstate the vowels.