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TIL that Nearly Half Of Deployed US Soldiers Drink 1 Energy Drink Per Day

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DQAQp TIL that in 1920, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Herbert Hoover (then a businessman who had no official political affiliation) to run for the Democratic Nomination for President and choose Roosevelt to be his running mate.
xVn45 TIL that the term 'robber baron', applied to certain ruthless wealthy American businessmen of late 19th century, is derived from the German term 'Raubritter' which referred to the medieval German knights who charged illegal tolls on the roads crossing their lands.
YpXJP TIL: Astronaut groupies in Florida were nicknamed "Cape Cookies". Infidelity was rife; wives had to maintain a perfect facade. Only 7/30 astro-marriages in the 60s survived. Alan Shepherd (first american in space), Pete Conrad (3rd man on the moon) and Dick Gordon (Apollo 12) formed the Go-Go crew.
mp4Y TIL that a pregnant single mom was investigated for welfare fraud after a DNA test showed she wasn’t the mother of her own children. When she went in for follow-up tests, doctors realized she was a chimera.
0dNx5 TIL a Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traversed interplanetary space before landing on Earth as a meteorite. By September 2020, 277 meteorites had been classified as Martian, less than 0.5% of the 72,000 classified meteorites.