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TIL that after Wernher von Braun’s first V2 rocket was used in combat, he was quoted as saying “the rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet”.

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Xl1R TIL that a Japanese man killed and ate a student in Paris in 1981; he has never stood trial and remains free - and passionate about cannibalism - to this day.
wEb1 TIL William Shatner called out reddit for being a site for racism and hate mongering.
R7PB9 Today I learned of the severed feet of Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2007 at least 20 human feet have washed up on shore. It has been blamed on everything from a serial killer to plane crashes to a tsunami with the most likely explanation being some combination of these.
Mdd7 TIL that Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen, plays almost exclusively on a home built guitar called ‘Red Special’ which be built with his father when he was a teenager
Znvp TIL when congress asked physicist R.R. Wilson to justify the US government spending millions of dollars on a new particle accelerator (Fermilab), Wilson testified that the knowledge gained from it would have “nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.”