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TIL about plans for a life-sized replica of the USS Enterprise to be built in Las Vegas in the early 90s

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E1NGp TIL The Rolex Daytona was originally considered an abysmal failure. Having been beaten to space by Omega, Rolex renamed the Cosmograph after Le Mans- then Daytona after licensing issues arose. It was so unsellable dealers literally gave them away. A modern example now goes for $20k.
Lk1w0 TIL: The world record for most marriages is 29, held by Glynn Wolfe. When Wolfe died, none of the women he married and only one of his children attended the funeral.
QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
kOOZW TIL that there is a group of monasteries in Greece called Meteora that are carefully perched on top of cliffs several hundred metres high
M7PB7 TIL Due to signing their merchandise deal late, Kenner sold the first four Star Wars figures in a empty box for Christmas 1977, it had a mail in rebate so you would receive your four figures by February 1978.