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TIL Elon Musk stated in an interview that he “wants to die on Mars, just not on impact.”

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wLDyE TIL about “Sim Swapping”, a technique used by criminals that involves the stealing a phone number and exploiting Multi-factor Authentication to access your financial information.
9w8BM TIL medieval European scholars believed the Southern Hemisphere couldn't be habitable because they thought the Equator was too hot to cross, making places south of it unreachable by evangelists, and since Jesus told the apostles to "evangelize all mankind", unreachable people couldn't exist.
R7j0Q TIL Army Ants Are Being Used To Stitch Up Wounds In The Villages Of Africa
941r TIL that according to the ‘Copyright Act 1911’ The British Library must receive a copy of every item published or distributed in the United Kingdom (including pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, sheet music and maps) in a practice know as 'legal deposit’, which can be traced back to at least 1610.
v1R8L TIL of The McKee Sons, a freighter that ran aground in the Detroit River on Christmas Eve while delivering almost 12,000 tons of coal