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Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection

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6oYm TIL there are more jails and prisons than colleges and universities in the USA
16Q0d TIL that the Mission Impossible theme is famous for its two long notes, followed by two short notes. These notes are the morse code signals for "M" and "I".
d81KZ TIL Carl Linneaus once proposed a clock made from different breeds of flowers, based when they opened and closed throughout the day.
XND TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village
GAg6G TIL about Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) or Tooth-in-Eye Surgery. Pioneered in the 1960s, where surgeons would put a tooth in a blind person's eye and it can restore sight. It still happens to this day