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

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ADeel TIL that Daft Punk's "Touch" and "Beyond" are collaborations with Paul Williams, who also cowrote The Muppets' "Rainbow Connection". His 1974 movie, Phantom of the Paradise, inspired their robot helmets.
nBGr TIL Uma Thurman’s father was the first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk, and her mother was once married to Timothy Leary
0xl1 TIL the Producers of Hannah Montana almost named her Alexis Texas.
7rYyp TIL in 1958, the inventor of the Little League baseball helmet demonstrated a 95mph pitch on the helmet the Major Leagues used at the time, and split it in two
d8QO7 TIL that the planet Neptune, which can only be seen by telescope, was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed for the first time on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried.