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TIL Country singer Marty Robbins loved NASCAR and even raced his own car. Once, he stunned everyone by running 15 mph faster than his qualifying lap. When NASCAR tried to award him, he rejected it, stating he knocked the restrictors out as he “wanted to see what it was like to run up front for once”

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QY5p TIL When recording “That’s life”, the scowl in Sinatra’s voice was a result of the producer telling Sinatra, after the recording session, to get out of his car and back in the studio to re-record the vocal. This made Frank very angry, shown in the song, creating the exact feel they wanted.
loBjN TIL the living author that has the most film adaptions is Stephen King with 34 theatrically released films based on his works
E1aZW TIL Tiny portions of the Wright Flyer were taken to the moon and back aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. Another few were taken aboard the Challenger on it’s final flight, and recovered from the wreckage. All of these pieces are now in display in North Carolina.
9K1m TIL 118 people were charged after 9/11 with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs when a computer failure caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center allowed unlimited access to money
4kRaN TIL Americans have a distinctive lean and it’s one of the first things the CIA trains operatives to fix.