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TIL that the SR 71 design could actually go to mach 6 speeds if it wasn’t for the material melting past mach 3.3

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QJepX TIL that Angela Morley, the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, was John Williams’ primary orchestrator throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She helped write and arrange the scores for Star Wars, ET, The Empire Strikes Back, Home Alone, Superman, and Schindler’s List.
e0oAE TIL that in 1914, police in California hired two men to lure homosexuals into public "glory holes" where the pair would score their victims penis with permanent markers and then drag them to the police station to be prosecuted.
DQvD TIL that in 1997 yahoo turned down the chance to buy google for only $1 million, now googles worth $200 billion
D4KV TIL the original constitution of Oregon had a “whites only” clause. All slaves were freed and then all black people were ordered to leave the state.
gMYnW TIL in October 2012, around 25 families showed up to the Nottingham Cineworld theater to watch Madagascar 3. Due to a technical error with the projector, they wound up watching the opening scene of Paranormal Activity 4 instead, causing children as young as 5-years-old to start crying as a result