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TIL Earth is the only known celestial body to have tectonic plates

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9YLap TIL that in 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
GVEj TIL A man received 20-life under “intentionally causing a catastrophe” charges after taking apart sandbags in a Missouri River levee during the Great Flood of 1993 in an attempt to strand his wife on the other side and continue partying.
X5EQ TIL only 32 teams successfully completed the final temple run on the Nickelodeon game show “Legends of the Hidden Temple”
d8A4B TIL Prince hated comparisons to Jimi Hendrix saying the only thing in common they had was being black.
XJAj TIL Melinda French initially was put off when Bill Gates requested a date he set for a couple weeks in the future. She then realized he was so busy with meetings, he had to schedule a date accordingly. She then agreed. They were married 6 years later.