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TIL The prestigious Michelin Star, an award that the worlds best chefs work their lives to attain, is awarded by Michelin Tires. For over 100 years, it’s all been part of an advertising campaign to sell tires.

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N4BM TIL 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII
1vaW TIL it only takes a gallon of fuel to move 1 ton of material 500 miles by rail.
dDWR7 TIL that still being a desert, the Sechura region of Peru has been effected at times by flooding and storms from the ocean. It is a coastal desert.
X0r4k TIL that Teddy Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt while campaigning and went on to give an hour-long speech with a bullet lodged 1/4 inch from his heart before going to the hospital
eBGb TIL when Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what it’s like to stand on the moon, he said: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’