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TIL - in 1995, Renault installed their 800+HP, V-10 Formula 1 engine into their Espace minivan, sold in Europe. They had F1 champ Alain Prost test drive it around a race track.

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akbN TIL that Venezuela is one of the most violent places on earth with a person being murdered every 21 minutes.
9Yknm TIL U.S president Martin Van Buren was raised in a Dutch family and therefore spoke Dutch as his first language. He is the only U.S president to have spoken English as a second language.
DPne TIL there’s a game that makes you make decisions as though you were a single parent with only $1,000 left and most people don’t get past 11 minutes into it
4XXvo Birds, whales, butterflies, and many other animals have an instinctive sense of which way points North. Even dogs tend to poop in line with the planet's magnetic poles. If they can sense magnetic fields, can we?
4X0gN TIL that the Torch Relay in the Olympic Games was actually invented by Germans in 1936 as political propaganda used by the Nazis to promote their cause in conjunction with the Olympics.