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TIL about the 1927 Dole Air Race where, out of 15 entrants, two were disqualified, two withdrew, and three aircraft crashed before the race, and only two finished the race

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MedB0 TIL Stock trader Jesse Livermore, who made $100 million from short positions during Wall Street Crash of 1929 is actually the great-grandfather of Brandi Love (Tracey Lynn Livermore), a famous American porn actress
QNP9p TIL about Seven Magic Mountains, a large-scale desert artwork in Nevada. Created by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, it consists of seven fluorescently-painted totems of large, car-size stones stacked 32 feet (9.8 m) high.
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JY7Jk TIL that the word for roller coasters literally translates to "Russian Mountains" in many languages, due to the fact that roller coasters originate from slides made of ice in Russia around the 17th century. However, in Russian, they are known as "американские горки"--American Mountains.