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TIL that Spacex's "Falcon Heavy" is the most powerful operational rocket in the world and can lift 64 metric tons into orbit

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4Xk1g TIL there is no longer anyone alive who was born in the 1800s
6EY7Y TIL all Australians are legally entitled to a free portrait of the Queen
Wknwd TIL that in 2013, Metallica performed a concert in Antarctica to a group of 120 scientists and contest winners; thereby becoming the first and to-date only band to have performed on all seven continents.
gr1ZW TIL while writing the 1971 song "Ain't No Sunshine", Bill Withers had originally intended to write more lyrics instead of repeating the phrase "I know" 26 times, but then followed the advice of the other musicians to leave it that way. Withers said: "When they said to leave it like that, I left it."
YKkZ TIL that after a man died of a heart attack from riding the roller coaster Python, SeaWorld removed its tagline: “I challenged the Python and lived!”.