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TIL that because the V2 rocket was fueled by drinking alcohol, during its development technicians would often drink the fuel, causing significant delays

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yVZwe TIL that in January 2019, a sound installation powered by solar batteries was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play Toto’s “Africa” on an indefinite constant loop.
4kgpX TIL: The creator of Magic: The Gathering, is President Andrew Garfield's great great grandson and his grand uncle invented the paperclip. He went to school and got a PhD in mathematics and started designing MTG as a grad student.
wbXM TIL Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick were close to 30 while acting as high school students in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (1986)
4X5wg TIL Kramer from Seinfeld was based on co-creator Larry David's eccentric neighbor who was always trying to come up with get-rich-quick schemes.
QJ66 TIL hog-nosed snakes will feign death by rolling on their back, and when rolled upright will roll back again as if to insist they’re really dead.