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TIL of the Cycloped, a "train" entered into the Rainhill Trials, a competition between engineers to design the most efficient locomotive. It consisted of a horse on treadmill, could only reach speeds of 5 MPH, and was disqualified after it fell through the platform.

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X0B0R TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case was unsolved by authorities for 8 years until in 2006 she knocked on someone’s door and said “I am Natascha Kampusch.” She had just escaped the cellar she was being abused in by a local technician.
e0V9J TIL In 1984, Robert Cunningham, a regular at a pizzeria asked his waitress for help choosing his lottery numbers. He won, came back, and tipped her $3 million.
gM5mD Today I learned "Good Times" is a spin-off of a spin-off. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, itself a spin-off of All in the Family.
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WAZo TIL that the Apollo 15 astronauts left a 3 inch “fallen astronaut” statuette on the surface of the moon in 1971 to commemorate all the men and women who died in pursuit of space travel