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TIL that Elon Musk’s motivation to build SpaceX was so he can die on Mars

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nwM9 TIL Best Buy used to have a fake internal website that looked exactly like their actual internet website, but with marked up prices, so they could price gouge in-store customers.
OGL11 TIL of Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, a Royal Navy officer who was on three different ships that were torpedoed... all on the same day
grry8 TIL the Adam and Eve also existed within Canaanite mythology. Adam was a god who was sent down by the great gods to save the tree of of life, and the world, from the serpent.
l78wN TIL Alfred Hitchcock planned for a suspenseful chase scene at Disneyland for his upcoming project "The Blind Man", but Walt Disney refused because Hitchcock made "that disgusting movie Psycho" and forbid him to film his projects anywhere in the park.
8aA7V TIL Americans eat 1.35 billion chicken wings during Super Bowl weekend