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TIL there is a Danish rocketry club currently aiming to become the first amateur group to launch a person into space.

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p8N7A TIL of a drug called TGN1412 that went through phase 1 clinical trials. Six men were given the drug and suffered catastrophic effects. Fever, severe pain, vomiting, multiple organ failures, swollen heads and limbs needing to be amputated.
R6AQ TIL Buddy Holly asked out his wife María Elena Holly the first time they met and proposed to her on said date.
WkQ7d TIL Taxi drivers in Ireland carry emergency service radios and defibrillators in their cars to tackle suicide in the country
KQDR TIL that British Paratroopers on D-Day discarded their 9mm Sten Guns for captured German MP 40s as the Sten Gun was horrifically unreliable, whereas the Schmeisser was an excellent SMG
weLP TIL George Lucas once said, “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”