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TIL: In 1909, Helen Taft, wife of President William Howard Taft, drove an electric car. It was a Baker Motor Vehicle and one of the cars in the White House fleet.

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JE5m TIL Buzz Aldrin “McGuyverd” a broken circuit breaker on the Apollo 11 lander with a felt-tip pen, without which Aldrin and Armstrong would have died on the moon
b9m50 TIL the American B83 Nuclear Bomb has been studied for use in the destruction/deterrence of asteroids on a crash course with Earth. They are 80x more powerful than the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
JYkVl TIL of "Sputnikfest" an annual celebration held in the city of Manitowoc, WI where people dress up as aliens and science fiction characters to commemorate a 20lb piece of a Russian satellite crashing down in the city back in 1962
l7Kmr TIL the current world record for longest throw of a baseball was set by Canadian Glen Gorbous in 1957. He threw a baseball nearly 446 feet, from the right field corner to the left field corner.
woww6 TIL: the Macadamia plant, from which we get the nut, was named after a person, John MacAdam