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TIL that the author of “Alice in Wonderland”, Lewis Carroll, was a valid suspect for Jack the Ripper!

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dZj TIL Patrick Stewart will be running the Olympic torch through my home town.
AND77 TIL that a test launch of the 1st generation Soyuz had the escape module fire off 27 minutes after the main rocket launch was aborted, due to Earth's rotation. Then the still-fully fueled rocket caught on fire.
l7vm5 TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
WJ6B TIL in 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
b6vNa TIL Over 40 buildings in New York City are so large that they have their own zip codes.