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TIL The movie Biodome was loosely based on a real Biodome
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TIL after Micheal Durant(the pilot captured during the Black Hawk Down incident) was captured, they played Hell’s Bells over loud speakers attached to helicopters to let him know they were still looking for him.
R908
TIL that the prophet Muhammad married his third wife, Aisha, when she was 6 (or 7) years old and he was 53. Their marriage was consummated when she was 9 years old.
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TIL Chris Martin of Coldplay’s great-grandfather William Willet campaigned for and made daylight saving time a recognised practice.
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TIL that at a time when Saudi women were not allowed to drive, Queen Elizabeth II (an avid driver) took King Abdullah for a ride in the royal Land Rover at her Balmoral estate, driving so fast that he implored his translator to tell her to slow down and concentrate on the road.
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TIL the Nazis developed experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) without resting before they collapsed.