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TIL: Elon Musk went to Russia to bargain for some refurbished ICBMs to build rockets for SpaceX, he was subsequently spat on by one of the chief Russian designers and called a novice.

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X04Br TIL that sex trafficker Andrew Tate’s father was an international chess master
xBQ0 TIL in 1991 a billionaire in Alabama had a bunch of life sized dinosaurs built and placed randomly in a 10,000 acre wooded area around his home.
jNDnv TIL of a rare complication from a rare disease. 43 year old man had pectus excavatum repair at age 7, but at his older age was still extremely exhausted. Doctors found that the early procedure in his life had destroyed his rib growth plates. His rib cage had stopped growing after 7 years old