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TIL that Ferrari fired its President despite the company being poised to announce record financial figures, because the Formula One team had not been winning any races.

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l5g7 TIL United States Chamber of Commerce is not a government agency but a conservative lobbyist group.
9Ygrp TIL that there is a world war 2 shipwreck (SS Richard Montgomery) off the coast of England, with roughly 1500 tonnes of explosives onboard, that may or may not explode at some point.
mx8KP TIL: Vin Diesel is a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan and had even written a D&D guide in the past.
kOwb7 TIL of John Von Neumann, a mathematician polymat that invented computers (the architecture in every digital computer today), a precursor theory of DNA without having been a biologist, played a pivotal in creating the Atom bomb, and laid out the mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.
JOwm TIL that the sloppy handwriting of doctors kills more than 7,000 people annually. Preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually