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TIL NASA’s Crawler-Transporter gets .0067 mpg, making it the worst gas mileage of all self-propelled land vehicles in the world.

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gjK4 TIL that in 2004 authorities discovered a fully functioning movie theater in the Parisian catacombs, equipped with a fully functioning restaurant, stocked bar, and projecting equipment.
oRODo TIL that the youngest person to summit Mount Everest was just 13 years old while the oldest person to summit was 80 years old.
D1oye TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was known for wandering the White House turning off lights in rooms he thought empty, sometimes to the surprise of people working in those rooms! This earned him the nickname “Light Bulb Johnson.”
oBLXK TIL Students in Finland have coveralls to wear to parties
wa8Y TIL ‘smurf accounts’ in competitive video games are named such because some of the first top players to make alternate accounts chose the usernames 'PapaSmurf’ and 'Smurfette.’