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TIL the first stage of Saturn V was fueled by kerosene, produced 215 million horsepower, and got 5 inches to the gallon

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R5M5w TIL that states required blood tests to get married until 1980, the latest being Montana in 2019. These blood tests originally checked for syphilis when it was a crisis and transitioned to checking for STDs.
awoLb TIL alligators are scared of humans and it's usually safe to swim in most alligator infested waters. A 2010 report tallied all the reported alligator attacks over the 81 years from 1928 to 2009. It found there were only 24 deaths from alligators in the United States, most of them in Florida.
j6pya TIL the tension between Marlon Brando & director Frank Oz while filming The Score escalated to such a point that Brando refused to be on set if Oz was there. So co-star Robert De Niro ended up directing Brando with Oz stationed at a distance while he privately passed directorial messages to De Niro.
VBE68 TIL there was a psychiatric hospital in Utah that created a haunted house for the public during Halloween season well into the 1990’s.
p8KK4 TIL that the guy who wrote "Awesome God" was ejected from a Jeep and then ran over by a semi truck