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TIL that Madonna's "Like A Prayer" slip dress was originally worn by Natalie Wood

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dD0b7 TIL The Mercedes Benz CLR's Flawed Design and Poorly Executed Aerodynamics Led to an Astonishing Incident During the 1999 Le Mans Race which led to the car literally taking off during the race.
b6Bra TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military.
eeEL TIL that our universe might be the event horizon of a 4 dimensional black hole
kOy7E TIL - In 1936 there was a serious proposal to build two helicoidal ramps on the side of the Eiffel Tower to allowed visitors to get to the second level without ever leaving their car. (377ft high above the ground)
mxk9E TIL that Queen Anne of England was pregnant 17 times. The first time at the age of eighteen, and the last at the age of thirty-four. She either miscarried or gave birth to stillborn babies. One child died under a year, another at a year and a half, and the oldest died at the age of eleven in 1700.