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TIL that in 1920, The Maharaja (King) of Alwar (India) used Rolls Royce cars as garbage collection vehicles, after facing discrimination at the Rolls Royce Showroom when he went there to buy cars.

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mNLx TIL that a Japanese ship crashed on the Washington coast in 1833, its sailors were captured by Native Americans and enslaved before being freed by the intervention of the Hudson Bay Company
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xVVGk Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material. As such, there are no plans to send a manned mission in its direction anytime soon (Mars is much more interesting, anyway), but it can't hurt to figure out at what distance a person would want to turn back. You can get surprisingly close. The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if we think of that distance as a football field, a person starting at one end zone could get about 95 yards before burning up.