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TIL that F1 drivers lose about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour.

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r9wW TIL that the cartoon “Ed, Edd n Eddy” was created on a dare
woOLE TIL that before the 1920s there were nearly no regulations for a passport photo.
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