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TIL Switzerland banned nearly all forms of motor-racing after the tragic 1955 Le Mans disaster, where fragments of a crashed car flew in the stands, killing 83 spectators, the most deadly accident in motorsport history. Despite numerous attempts to lift it, the ban is still in place to this day.

rRry0 TIL that the made up design for a character in A Bugs Life was found on a real beetle 8 years later
4B9b TIL that hippos often enjoy licking massive crocodiles.
grEVb TIL that Stephen King Wanted John Candy To Play The Lead in his movie adaption of Thinner (1996)
o1RA TIL there is a World War I fighter plane on top of a skyscraper in Manhattan
W7vDA TIL A Single Nuclear Bomb over Kansas Could Cause An EMP Over All of the Continental US