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TIL that the Mazda 787B is the only car with a rotary engine (Wankel) to win the 24 hours of Le Mans. Its 2.6l wankel engine generated 700bhp. The engine performed so well that after winning the race it was banned

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ne697 TIL that in the 1940s, actress Joan Hickson appeared in an Agatha Christie play, following which the author sent her a note reading “I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple. 41 years later, Hickson was cast as Miss Marple in a BBC series of Marple adaptations.
l71GA TIL the maternal grandparents of Al Pacino, famous for playing Michael Corleone, emigrated from the Sicilian town of Corleone
6d4Z TIL there is a Unicode Character for ‘LOVE HOTEL’
R5DJl TIL that a Kyoto graduate researcher tracked and charted the romantic lives of the Kyoto Aquarium penguins. His chart showed relationships akin to soap operaesque drama.
GeKQ TIL that the United Kingdom and Portugal hold the longest standing alliance in the world, it started in 1386