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TIL that Rolex is a Non-Profit Organization.

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E1xr7 TIL The McDonnell Douglas F-15 can reach 30,000 ft (9,100m) in 60 seconds and has a thrust-to-weight ratio that allows the aircraft to accelerate while flying straight up. It is also the only aircraft to ever shoot down a satellite orbiting in space.
WkZ9X TIL the Five Civilized Tribes were deeply committed to slavery, had their own black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.
xVl1D TIL during the Crosby by-election (UK) in 1981, a 22-year old candidate legally changed his name from John Desmond Lewis to Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel, in homage to a character from a Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch.
mdLO TIL Oscar Wilde said: “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
LkeOV TIL that Breaking Bad has a shot-for-shot Spanish remake titled "Metástasis" featuring Walter Blanco, a struggling high school chemistry teacher in Bogotá, Colombia, who teams up with his previous student José to cook methamphetamine.