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TIL of Michele Mouton, the last women to compete in high level rallying. She won 4 races in the 1982 season and nearly won the 1982 World Rally Championship season, eventually finishing runner up, as a factory driver for Audi.

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x64r0 TIL,world's oldest emergency call service was started after a neighbour who wanted to report a house fire in Wimpole street telephoned the fire brigade and was so outraged at being held in a queue by the telephone exchange that he wrote a letter to the editor of The Times,which prompted an enquiry.
b98bQ TIL that when people are blind from birth they don’t see black. They don’t see darkness, they just don’t see anything at all. They see less than darkness
8am9a TIL Historically, Native American communities conducted a salmon ceremony where they showed respect to the first caught salmon by sharing it with everyone in the community, cleaning its skeleton and returning it to the river where it could return to its kin and tell of the respect it received.
9BJB TIL that in Singapore, during WWII, the Malayan Infantry noticed a troop of Punjabi soldiers marching in a line of four, instead of a line of three as how the soldiers of the British Army would and opened fire, killing several men. The Punjabi soldiers were actually Japanese soldiers in disguise.
Jg54 TIL that at 2:58 in the Hey Jude, you can hear ‘fucking hell’ as Paul McCartney screws up on the piano. The band thought it was funny enough to leave in.