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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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YplKZ TIL if you were a botanist who wanted to publish about a new plant, you had to write the diagnosis (its distinguishing characteristics) in LATIN. This requirement was only repealed in 2011.
OPP7 TIL Rolling Stone gave many artists bad reviews, then changed to good reviews after they became famous. Examples include The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Weezer, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Outkast and also Queen.
Ng5Q TIL, the youngest soldier to be killed in action in the Vietnam War, Dan Bullock was 15 years old
lo4JA TIL the Carrington Event was a coronal mass ejection that occurred on August 28, 1859, causing Aurorae for days as far south as Cuba and bright enough to read by, as well as disabling the telegraph systems of North America and Europe.
9w5lQ TIL that in 2001, a 13-year-old Boy Scout named Cody Clawson went missing for over 18 hours near Yellowstone Park. Clawson resorted to using his belt buckle to signal to planes overhead. Eventually, he got a pilot’s attention - and that pilot was none other than Harrison Ford - who rescued Clawson.