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TIL The aerodynamics (downforce) of an F1 car is so powerful it could drive on an inverted road (upside-down) if it was going only 170kmh or 105mph!

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W7eYd TIL during a 2020 pre-game news conference, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo moved two bottle of Coca-Cola from his desk and said "drink water" in Portuguese. Coca-Cola temporarily lost $4 billion in market value.
NYdE TIL July 2nd is the exact middle of a non leap year, 182 days both before and after today.
WkNN4 TIL in 1908, a meteor exploded over Siberia and flattened over 770 sq miles (2000 km) of forests. Though it disintegrated ~3 miles above Earth, it created an airburst with 1000x more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Incredibly, only 3 people were killed.
M4Lm TIL : The first public digital camera had a slot for floppy disc.
9W6M TIL that between 1947 & 1948 the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax recorded prison and chain gang songs in Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries. They are incredible.