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TIL NASA's crawler transporter that's used to move rockets from the assembly building to the launch pad gets 32 feet per gallon (165 gal/mile) from its 5000 gallon capacity diesel fuel tank

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Eg47w TIL Tom Lehrer, Mathematician, Musician, and Satirist also invented the Jello Shot while serving on a military base
Y7vaA TIL that the Spanish governor in Portugal was thrown out of a window, thus ending Spanish rule in Portugal in 1640.
epedg TIL F1 Driver Lewis Hamilton's steering wheel cost $100k.
0dGVR TIL In 1987, Prince planned to release an album under the name Camille using his extensive androgynous range without any acknowledgement of his identity.
KOkNE TIL : The Padmanabhaswamy temple is a Hindu temple located in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala in India.The temple has been a subject of enormous media coverage since it was revealed that the temple had huge amount of wealth hidden in it's undeground vaults.