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TIL in 2011 British banger racers managed to wreck 100 Austin Westminsters in a night, which meant that they destroyed about 30% of all surviving examples.

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REpj TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, only to return in 1962. 18 months later he would assassinate John F. Kennedy.
g95A TIL there’s a Deaf KFC in Pakistan, India and Egypt made for and handled by deaf people.
oBbNA TIL when Justin Beiber was 17, he guest-starred as a serial bomber and serial killer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. One of the show's stars, Marg Helgenberger, later stated on French radio that he was 'kind of a brat' on the set of the show.
AN6ow TIL that Weird Al's Phantom Menace parody 'The Saga Begins' was recorded a month before the film released in May 1999. Yankovic was denied an early screening by Lucasfilm, but managed to almost exactly piece together the plot by researching rumours posted on Star Wars fan forums.