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TIL NASA's spacecraft crawler transport vehicle gets 35 feet/gallon of diesel fuel.

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BgEle TIL that there is a mountain in Wyoming that was formed by a 500-square mile rockslide 50 million years ago. The slide traveled 25 miles in about 30 minutes and may moved like a giant hovercraft as the result of volcanic activity breaking limestone down into carbon dioxide gas
gMJQb TIL a fascinating group of people called the "Wandervogel" rebelled against Authoritarianism in germany until the nazis forced them to disband, while borrowing some of their ideas about nationalism and nature
m1YOO TIL Following World War One Canada sent 799 body parts extracted from soldiers back to Canada to be part of a museum. The museum was never built, instead the organs became teaching aids at McGill University before being destroyed around 1960.
J1vWB TIL: In 1952 British politician Christopher Mayhew, in a rare and 'unbroadcast' BBC Panorama special, once demonstrated the effects of mescaline hydrochloride, leading to a series of predictably comical incongruities.
GJrQ TIL that German has a word for the weight you put on when you eat comfort food after a breakup, and it translates to “Grief bacon.”