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TIL Richard Stockton, ancestor of OceanGate’s Ex-CEO Stockton Rush, was the only Declaration of Independence signer to renounce the American Revolution

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oQyK TIL that malaria has killed close to half of all humans who have ever lived, predominantly children
0wydN TIL: It costs $5,984 to get a pound of materials to the ISS on Space X's Falcon 9.
XXJR TIL that a Cosplaying “Dark Elf” was arrested after he dropped acid and attacked a woman’s red BMW, mistaking it for Morgoth.
dOBj TIL that a town in North Carolina banned solar energy because they thought it would “suck up all the energy from the sun”
MWx0 TIL of laughing gas parties, where the British upper class would get high off of nitrous oxide