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TIL that during the extreme heat and physical strain of some of the Formula 1 races, driver[s] can lose up to 5 kilos of weight.

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kP0B TIL that General Tso’s chicken is not even a Chinese dish and that the name actually means “ancestral meeting hall chicken.”
vggB TIL in 1899 the southern States had four days of arctic cold, enough to freeze the entire length of the Mississippi River
v146j TIL that during the Apollo 10 mission a turd was found floating around the spacecraft in zero gravity, but none of the astronauts on board would admit that it was theirs.
ny9P TIL that when the African Grey parrot N'kisi first met Jane Goodall, he recognized her from a photograph and asked “Got a chimp?” It is claimed that this was a possible display of a sense of humor.
0dyxM TIL in 1997 an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado. The four 500 lb bombs his plane was carrying have never been found.