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TIL Helen Mirren pretended to be Queen Elizabeth to fulfill a 10 year old’s dying wish. They had tea, and he had no idea it wasn’t the real thing.

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4XLpX Mars and the moon are already at the top of NASA’s prospect list for future human exploration and possibly colonies, but another planet has recently been getting some unexpected attention. NASA seriously wants to send humans to Venus.
JYlEQ TIL that in 1836, Rachel Plummer then aged 17 was kidnapped and held prisoner by Comanches for 21 months. Her memoir is considered an invaluable glimpse into the culture and mindset of the Comanche as a people before disease and war forced them onto reservations.
ANPpB TIL Indian space entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty is the only space entrepreneur in the world to have cofounded companies on three different continents in Asia, Europe and North America.
g0g4 TIL the US Air Force accidentally dropped two atomic bombs 260x more powerful than Hiroshima on North Carolina but a low-voltage safety switch prevented disaster.
4XM4o TIL that Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Winston Churchill had tattoos!