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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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N79xQ TIL | Olympic divers shower after each dive because the shock of going into the water and then out of the water so quickly can cause muscle cramps. The showers help alleviate this issue.
ddDK TIL of Tour de Donut, a 30 mile bike race in Illinois where riders take 5 minutes off their time for each donut they eat along the way.
X004D TIL that the earliest Sony Walkman models had two separate headphone jacks labeled "guys" and "gals" so you could share your music with others and not come off as being antisocial.
Ad4x TIL Axl Rose once postponed a Guns N’ Roses show because he was watching TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze
R7XNl TIL in the year 2000 the award-winning publication UPI (United Press International) was bought by billionaire cult leader Sun Myung Moon, who claimed to be the second coming of Christ. Mr. Moon has since died, but UPI is still owned by his holding company.