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TIL jockey Ralph Neves was declared dead, then raced the next day - and won.

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786Wp TIL that Eddie Cochran, one of the earliest rock and roll stars, died in a car crash in a taxi on his way to Heathrow Airport, London after a tour of England in 1960. He was only 21.
v1Ykx TIL A satellite launched in 1978, and thought to be shutdown in 1997, was actually discovered in 2008 still be fully operational with plenty of fuel. Through efforts of crowd funding and approval from NASA, a group successfully established contact and fired the engines for the first time since 1987
e0Z0g TIL Saturn, an American Alligator born in 1936, who is rumored to have been a favorite of Hitler. After the Battle of Berlin he was captured by the British and given to the Soviets. He was moved to Moscow Zoo after the war where he still lives today.
6ElBw TIL that Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs throughout his career and did not write a single one of them on his own.
VMplQ TIL: The small hopping insect Issus Coleoptratus uses toothed gears on its joints to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward. This insect has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature