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TIL you don’t need a drivers license to compete in NASCAR.

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BrlDe TIL the Lewis & Clark expedition only suffered one casualty. Dysentery, snake bites, a dislocated shoulder, venereal disease and Lewis being shot in the buttocks after being mistaken for an elk all threatened the group's well-being, but the only man to die did so as a result of a burst appendix.
eWkD TIL In the Korean War, US mortar teams accidentally ordered hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls instead of rounds because the US military sometimes used “tootsie rolls” as code for mortar rounds
abML TIL That if you ever get lost in Central Park, each one of the 1,600 lampposts around the grounds have a special code to help you map where you are
0wReM TIL about “The Philidelphia Incident”. A Relatively Unknown Bill Burr Verbally Destroyed the City with a Savage Rant After Watching His Friends Get Booed Off Stage One After Another and Propelling Himself Out of Obscurity
awbaM TIL George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" are not banned in China and can be easily found in Chinese bookstores.