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TIL NASA spending has a 14:1 return on investment to the economy

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Z8GQR TIL the source of a 1964 Typhoid outbreak in Scotland was traced to a river in Argentina. A meat processing plant there used polluted river water for cooling tins of canned beef. Somewhere there was a leak, which contaminated the meat before it was shipped to Scotland, where it killed 3 people.
kJkvd TIL Elmer McCurdy (an outlaw) was killed in Oklahoma in 1911. His body was discovered in 1976 by a film crew member in an amusement park, where it was thought to be a wax mannequin.
eMMk TIL Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in 1872, against Ulysses S. Grant.
pG4 TIL that women can orgasm from exercising their core
Ke66 TIL some ancient Greek statues were erected with money from fines of Olympic athletes who violated the rules of the games. They were intended to shame cheating athletes by including an inscription of the offender’s name.