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TIL about Victor “Al” Pease, who remains the only driver in Formula 1 history to have been disqualified from a race for driving too slow.

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j7lQ TIL of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars. Her thesis supervisor took credit and was awarded a Nobel Prize.
m10VY TIL about Glacier Girl, a WWII P-38 fighter that had to make an emergency landing on the Greenland ice. The plane became buried under more than 200 feet of solid ice, but was recovered 50 years later and restored to flying condition.
gMXKW TIL In July 2017, the Chinese government banned Justin Bieber from performing in China. They released a statement later on saying "In order to maintain order in the Chinese market and purify the Chinese performance environment, it is not suitable to bring in badly behaved entertainers."
X0w9R TIL A teen from Manchester used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history charged with inciting his own murder
jNVGp TIL "Going troppo" is an Australian term for being driven mad by heat, as a result of spending too much time in the tropics. A study in Darwin found those who do not work in air-conditioning had higher levels of negativity, anxiety, aggression, and alcohol use, and lower levels of general health.