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TIL that NASCAR drivers who weigh less than 180 lbs have to add weights to their cars.

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VB7mB TIL George Carlin’s 1972 “Seven Dirty Words” routine (“shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits”) led to a 1978 Supreme Court case affirming FCC power to regulate indecent broadcasts. Carlin defended “tits” as too harmless for the list, joking it sounded like a snack food.
AJL7 TIL American men receive 60% longer Federal prison sentences than women for the same crime.
4kAVg TIL a Greenland shark — a species that's half-blind, scavenge on polar bear carcasses, survives for hundreds of years and is thought to live in freezing Arctic waters — was discovered in an unexpected place: Belize.
NXEGP TIL that when a Kazakh athlete won a sharpshooting competition in 2012, the organizers of the event organizers mistakenly played the parody national anthem from "Borat"
RdR8 TIL Miami Vice star Don Johnson once asked Hunter S. Thompson to answer old Zen philosophical question: ‘What is the sound of one hand clapping?’ Hunter S. Thompson answered by reaching up and slapping Johnson upside his head.