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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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45eJ TIL a man built a cutting-edge stealth boat for the US Navy. Then the government tried to put him out of business.
MNaB TIL That the USA is the only country in the world which gives life-without-parole sentences to juvenile offenders.
QN9Rd TIL that Spam is seen as a luxury food in South Korea due to smuggling during Korean War from U.S. army base
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