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TIL Rum was a defacto currency in Australia

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6EZdw TIL that the first person to break the 100kmh land speed record correctly predicted he would die in a Mercedes. He pranked his friends while hunting by making animal noises behind a bush and they shot him. He died in a Mercedes while being driven to the hospital.
QN7gL TIL that the U.S. developed “Operation Cherry Blossom,” a plan to spread plague-infected fleas in Japan during World War II. Although never executed, it highlighted the lengths nations would go for biological warfare and sparked discussions on bioethics.
D1yxY TIL that the Romans kept and cared for sacred geese in a temple, who then alerted them to an attack by invading Gauls, saving the city.
Nyde TIL NASA Vehicle Assembly building interior volume is so vast that it has its own weather, including “rain clouds form[ing] below the ceiling on very humid days”
XNNR TIL William Shatner recorded a wake up call that was played for Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew for their last day docked at the ISS. Saying “Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission:…”