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TIL that in 1990 a broken turbo in a Nissan R90CK caused it to produce over 1100hp, allowing Mark Blundell to set a still-standing Le Mans record: winning pole position with a gap of over 6 seconds from second place, which was a Porsche 962C.

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Y7pXG TIL that Horatio Alger, whose aspirational and highly popular stories usually featured a poor boy being taken under the wing of an older man, was charged with "the abominable and revolting crime of gross familiarity with boys" as a young minister. He did not contest the charges and left town.
pvNQ TIL that there is a skyscraper in Manhattan that doesn’t have any windows at all
1ayBO TIL the largest ape to ever live was doomed by its size.
vPbEx TIL that audiences were so convinced that the film "The Battle of Algiers" was newsreel that the American distributors put a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used
L44Q TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.