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TIL that the Equator line doesn't cross Equatorial Guinea

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v1akx TIL of Sir Jack Brabham who finished the 1959 Formula One race on foot when his car ran out of fuel with 500 yards to go. He pushed the car the rest of the way to clinch the title.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
1akGV TIL that there used to be a commercial project to establish a permanent manned base on the Moon called the Artemis Project.
9YX6r TIL that Eric Clapton’s Tears In Heaven was written about his 4 year old son, Connor Clapton, who died by falling out of an apartment building.
p8gmZ TIL O.J. Simpson was found civilly responsible for the murders when the opposing lawyer produced 31 pictures proving OJ lied about ever owning or wearing the same elite shoes the murderer wore