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TIL some NASCAR drivers wear diapers, but most don't, as the fibers of a diaper can catch fire, so they go pee pee straight in their racing suits.

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N7dw8 TIL that in the 1920s, cows started spontaneously hemorrhaging. It was found they were eating hay from moldy sweet clover; the mold helped convert an aromatic compound in the clover into an anticoagulant. The substance was isolated and used as rat poison, and later the drug Warfarin.
8eykL TIL of the Basilisk of Warsaw, a mythical creature that allegedly terrorised 16th-century Poland and was ‘defeated’ by a criminal in a mirrored suit of armour.
1aOx4 TIL about Finger Binary. A method to count up to 31 on one hand and up to 1024 on two hands
w8EM TIL the first version of The Game of Life featured a suicide square.
6kVY TIL about the “Demon Core’, a 6.2 kg subcritical mass of plutonium that briefly went critical during two separate experiments, killing two members of the Manhattan Project