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TIL that the earliest documented alternate history scenario was written in the 1st century BC by the Roman Historian Titus Livius. The scenario included Alexander the Great surviving long enough to invade Europe and end up fighting against and losing to Rome.

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MeNpm TIL Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger from Winnie The Pooh, had medical training and became the first person to build and patent a mechanical artifical heart.
neQPG TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).
abp9 TIL that the average age of the NASA engineers who put humans on the Moon was 28 years old. This means many of them were teenagers when Kennedy challenged America to go to the Moon.
dDKMr TIL driving one mile uses the equivalent petroleum needed to make 14 plastic bags. A 24mpg car with a 15 gallon tank equivalently burns over 5000 plastic bags per fill.
XErE TIL Pablo Pineda was the first student with Down Syndrome in Europe to obtain a university degree.