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TIL Elon Musk is seriously planning Mars colonization using a heavy lift rocket called the Mars Colonial Transporter

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grX1b TIL while most primarily known for her role on "Charlie's Angels", Farrah Fawcett was only a cast member on the show for one season.
lodMr TIL a South African farmer rescued a baby hippo from a flood and gave it a home. The farmer fed him, brushed his teeth and helped him. The farmer was found dead with severe bite marks from the hippo and his body submerged in the river where he rescued the hippo 6 years earlier
BrJGd TIL the U.S. Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team perform all their maneuvers on an aircraft with a modified control stick spring tensioned with 40 lbs of pressure. Additionally the pilots do not use G-suits despite making high-G maneuvers during their routines.
QJB7a TIL Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics for 50 years holds the managerial records for most wins and most losses
Oo9OY TIL that Rube Goldberg was actually a cartoonist, and not a physicist or inventor. He drew imaginary inventions by a character named "Professor Butts"