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TIL BMW holds the world record for longest (water assisted) drift at 232.5 miles in which they preformed mid-drift refueling five times breaking a second record for longest twin vehicle drift.

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xVmKw TIL there is a town in the UK that publicly weighs their Mayor before and after their term to ensure they haven't gained weight at the taxpayers’ expense. If they have gained weight they are publicly booed.
mRpM TIL “Chimney Sweeps” were originally enslaved children who would shimmy up a chimney with a cleaning brush - and oftentimes they would get stuck in the process and die. The deaths were so common that brick masons developed a technique to open chimneys and extract bodies quickly.
yVYDp TIL that Redbad, the last pagan King of Frisia (modern-day northern Netherlands), refused to convert to Christianity, choosing to spend eternity in Hell with his ancestors rather than in Heaven with beggars.
VMxrp TIL that about 50,000 British criminals were "transported" to the American colonies for either 7 or 14 years as punishment in leiu of the death sentence. It ended with the American Revolution. UK jails then became overcrowded until they created the new colony of Australia and the practice restarted
81LV TIL When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Otto Von Bismarck (the man who unified Germany) responded that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”