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TIL Because rallies often take place on public roads (and use public roads to get to and from stages) Wolrd Rally Championship cars are registered, street legal vehicles complete with licence plates.

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M7gxm TIL that even though the Minions from “Despicable Me” speak a fictitious language, they are re-dubbed for each language the films are released in so that their speech patterns are recognizable to the audience.
GAWEj TIL in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, there is a 120-year-old abandoned concert hall known as Steinert Hall that is 40 feet underground, buried beneath a piano store.
b9LpZ TIL- A Noctambulist is known as a sleepwalker. And Jennifer Aniston is a known Noctambulist
gxDX TIL Paulownia is also known as the “princess tree” because it was once customary to plant a Paulownia tree when a baby girl was born, and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she married.
78bWM TIL the African American exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exhibition, curated by W.E.B. DuBois & Thomas J. Calloway, featured 200 books by African Americans, collected by Daniel Murray. Murray's list was the Library of Congress' first bibliography of African American literature.. More in the comments....