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TIL that Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen, nicknamed "The Ice Man", was so calm before his debut race in 2001 that he was asleep 30 minutes before the start

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mW5R TIL that it took an average of 52,000 bullets to make a single kill by regular infantry units during the Vietnam War.
78l9b TIL that James Cook discovered the island of Tubuai, Austral Islands of French Polynesia in March 1777 but failed to actually set foot on the island
xVWJb TIL that there is a restaurant in Tokyo called “The Restaurant of Order Mistakes” that hires waiters with dementia and Alzheimer’s. They may or may not get your order right.
xL8w TIL the Marines use a non-lethal heat beam to ward off people “causing a feeling similar to being on fire”
16RPW TIL shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four Nazis landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York from a German submarine.