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TIL If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets, due to how the fuel requirements for rockets scale.

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dDLOr TIL In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired the major food companies Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco, allowing tobacco firms to dominate America’s food supply and reap billions in sales from popular brands such as Oreo cookies, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and Lunchables
KYVJB TIL that when Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix, the organizers did not have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the Mexican hat dance.
eaR4 TIL that the infinity symbol is conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral for 1000, CIƆ or sometimes CƆ, since Romans hyperbolically used 1000 to represent very large numbers.
go48 TIL that DMX started a reality show about his “road to recovery” after getting out of jail… it was cancelled when he got arrested again three weeks later
nWeAY TIL that Thomas the Tank Engine has several real replicas of the well-known locomotive. They greet tourists throughout Europe, North America, and Japan on heritage railways as part of a "Day Out with Thomas".