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Most people are aware that SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into space, but did you know that between 2008-2015 the European Space Agency put several ATVs into orbit?
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun) (public domain image per commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All-terrain_vehicle_Quad._New_Brunswick_2008_7575.jpg)
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This one is 100% true. ATV is an abbreviation for “All-Terrain Vehicle”, but it is also an abbreviation for “Automated Transfer Vehicle”, which is a cargo spacecraft used for resupplying the ISS (International Space Station).
By first mentioning a car in space and by showing a picture of all-terrain vehicles, this statement makes it sound like they but all-terrain vehicles in space, when in this case “ATV” actually refers to the spacecraft.