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TIL that Renato Bialetti requested that his ashes be placed in a big moka machine

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kEKm TIL Apollo Mission astronauts have nearly five times higher mortality from cardiovascular disease than other astronauts due to exposure to deep-space radiation.
XEb5R TIL Tarzan wasn’t raised by apes, but by a fictional species of ape-like beings who have their own language.
BmxD TIL that MIT students discovered that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets in the Massachusetts’ Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. Over 5 years, they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
NWe1 TIL the members of The British Royal Family aren’t allowed to play Monopoly because of how vicious the competition gets.
ExeV TIL if cars were driven by computers, a single lane of freeway could transport road trains of up to 35,000 vehicles per hour (up from 1,500 human driven cars per hour)