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TIL more than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.

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ky1B TIL that hot dogs are called hot dogs because they were rumored to be sausages containing dog meat, served hot. The government put an excise tax of $200 on every hot dog stand in response as a way of stifling the practice of selling them.
P1kgJ TIL car manufacturers sell spicy tape. It's a wiring tape that's coated with capsaicin to deter rodents from chewing on wires
W7v18 TIL Aware of his own shortcomings in formal education, Abraham Lincoln mastered six books of Euclid’s Elements on his own in his early forties. Lincoln believed Euclid challenged him intellectually and made him into a better lawyer
RAv1 TIL the Pharaoh Sesostris defeated an army so easily that he built a vagina statue in their capital because they “fought like women”.
Zpe8D TIL Around 400 BC Laozi wrote 81 verses on how to live in the world with goodness and integrity. The Tao Te Ching influenced many Western writers, including Aleister Crowley and Ursula Le Guin, through more than 100 versions of the text