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

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694YY TIL: In 1962, a bear caused a false alarm at a US air base and almost caused nuclear war
64Al TIL the official state vegetable of Oklahoma is watermelon.
69yvm TIL Adolf Hitler had survived at least 42 assassination attempts
Brymr TIL that Elizabeth I spent her reigning summers travelling with an entire royal entourage of 400-600 horse drawn carts. They travelled slowly, an average of 10-12 miles a day. Her visits to houses incurred significant expenses for the host, thus they weren’t always happy to have her stay.
56pp TIL that the “Baseball T-shirt” sleeve style was originally designed to provide freer arm movement to benefit sword fighting.