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TIL you need to have a net worth of 7.5 million to open a Panera

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wLKy7 TIL astronaut Gus Grissom named the Gemini 3 Molly Brown, in the hope that it wouldn't sink after splashdown. NASA didn't like it and asked him to change the name, to which he replied, "How about the Titanic?" NASA relented, but this was the last time astronauts were allowed to name their capsule.
4rZo TIL the Voltaire quote co-opted by the far-right movement, “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise” is actually a false quote attributed to Voltaire, and was likely first used by White Supremacist Kevin Strom in 1993, 215 years after Voltaire’s death.
19xD TIL in 1996, Pfizer may have killed 50 kids in Nigeria while improperly testing experimental anti-meningitis drugs
4XpQX TIL Nigerian scammer, Emmannuel Nwude once sold a fake airport to an International bank for $242 million
1W44 TIL that 3 marathon runners ran across the entire Sahara - that’s an equivalent of 2 marathons/day for 111 days, totaling approximately 4,000 miles! They started at the Atlantic Ocean in Senegal and ended at the Red Sea in Cairo.