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TIL Henry ford instructed drivers in a race to finish at same time in a dead heat to create publicity for the company

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4XZb6 TIL Mozart was most likely poisoned
Xd06 TIL that a lesbian journalist went undercover as a straight white male for 18 months. She concluded that “Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don’t have it better… I like [being a woman] more now because I think it’s more of a privilege.”
8jw4 TIL less than 5% of the world lives in the U.S., but Americans consume about 37% of cocaine in the world.
d876E TIL about the 'Watras incident' where a worker at a nuclear powerplant triggered contamination alert after returning from the weekend. They found the source of this being his home, flooded with radon gas. He was told that each day of living there was the equivalent of smoking 135 packs of cigarettes
OGJRR TIL that mankind has built a space craft that will come within 3.83 million miles of the Sun in December of 2024.