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TIL the Golden Gate Bridge isn’t named for its own coloring but rather for the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, which was named so even before the California gold rush.
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TIL that in 1973 a Mercedes-Benz 770 F-Cabriolet that was stated to be Hitler's parade limousine was sold for a then record of $153,000. A week later it was revealed to have belonged to Finnish President Carl Mannerheim, but this news was ignored, and the car broke the record again half a year later
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TIL that in 1873 William Shanks spent 15 years of his life calculating pi to 707 places, BY HAND. However The Last Few Years Were Wasted– He Made A Mistake After The 527'th Digit.
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TIL On 5 August 1888, 39-year-old Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her sons Richard and Eugen, in a Model III, without telling her husband. This became the First ever cross-country automobile journey.
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TIL humans are in the same Superorder as rats, so we are closer related to rats than shrews are related to rats.