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TIL that the 1970 F1 World Driver’s Championship was awarded posthumously to Jochen Rindt. Rindt won 5 of the first 9 races, but crashed and died due to brake failure. No competitor managed to exceed his points total in the remaining races.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 10:25 am

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TIL New Zealand was home to some of the largest birds on Earth around 600 years ago, the Moas. These ostrich-like birds were as tall as 3m but went extinct due to overhunting by the first Polynesian settlers.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 10:04 am

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TIL that the amount of college students in America who are interested in partying have declined in recent years due to the rise in social media

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 9:07 pm

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TIL in 1983 Russia, thinking the US was attacking them, shot down a Korean passenger plane that had inadvertently entered their airspace. Due to this, Ronald Reagan made an executive order that GPS, owned by USA, be made available for civilian use to prevent such confusion happening again.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 1:18 am

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TIL that French President Charles De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt due to the bullet being stopped by the frame of the photograph of his daughter Anne that he always carried with him. Anne had downs syndrome and died 14 years earlier at the age of 20

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 3:36 pm

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TIL: Turkish Airlines had an Airbus A340-300 that was nicknamed “Deli Mike” (“Crazy Mike” in Turkish) due to its record of odd & harmless technical issues that persisted even after repairs, such as turning lights on randomly (and off again on its own, as if it knew when the pilots were intervening).

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 12:15 pm

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TIL the nocebo effect is the opposite of the placebo effect. Nocebo describes a situation where a negative outcome occurs due to a belief that the intervention will cause harm.

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 9:14 am

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Today I learned that 19 people have died and over 400 have been injured due to defective airbags from a single manufacturer that can fill the cars cabin with deadly shrapnel upon deployment. One of the largest vehicle recalls is currently underway involving 19 different manufactures.

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 2:08 am

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TIL Peyote, a hallucinogenic cacti is against the law in the US except if you are a Native American due to religious rights under the first amendment

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 11:50 pm

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TIL – Pirates didn’t wear eye patches due to missing eyes, they wore them cause it takes the eye’s iris a long time to adjust from bright light to dark. they needed to see well and quickly above & below deck to manage the crew and lead raids, so they would simply flip the eye patch over.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 4:49 pm

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TIL at least 2 in 3 Australians will be diagnosed with some form of skin cancer before the age of 70 due to a sunny climate, high UV levels near the equator, an outdoor culture, and many fair-skinned Australians.

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 9:07 pm

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TIL about Charles Boycott. He rented out land to farmers during the 20th century. Many farmers couldn’t afford to pay him, so many farmers were evicted. Due to this, there were boycotts against him. Those boycotts gave rise to the verb “boycott”, named after the person. The word never existed before

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 8:42 pm

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