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TIL that Microsoft Excel 2000 contains a secret racing game that users can play.

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LkNgp TIL of the wreck of the slave ship L'Utile which in 1761 crashed into Tromelin Island near Madagascar, an island without animals or trees. 60 Slaves were left behind. FIFTEEN YEARS later the survivors were rescued – seven women and an eight-month-old child.
dDvZd TIL 2016 was the first time since 1928 that the Republicans won an election without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket.
1aA0V TIL While the US Dollar (Sacagawea and SBA) coins were considered failures in the continental US, in other countries that use the Dollar, the coins are more popular than $1 bills.
d8xj TIL That the Texas Legal System uses the Character Lennie Smalls from Of Mice and Men to determine if a death-row inmate is “too retarded” to understand his crimes, and thus avoid the death penalty.
n9Gr TIL that in the 1880s and 1890s, a camel roamed the Arizona desert for a decade with a corpse strapped to its back