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TIL: Rupaul owns 60,000 acres in Wyoming that he leases to oil companies for fracking

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xJ67 TIL The movie “Interstellar” used no greenscreens.
LQ7Lr TIL that Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s steamship the "Great Eastern" (1858) could reach Australia without refuelling and carry up to 4000 passengers. It was so enormous that it was launched sideways into the Thames and remained the world’s largest ship by length, tonnage, and capacity for 40 years.
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