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TIL the large tires on tractors are commonly filled with liquid rather than air

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WkmbY TIL that the developers of the racing simulator game Assetto Corsa were attempting to find the source of what they believed to be a bug with the in-game traction control. In reality, the "bug" was the simulation accurately recreating a real world physics problem they were unaware of.
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