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TIL: The airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow is about 24 miles per hour or 11 meters per second.

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JY71B TIL that the Soviet secret police required that all domestic maps were intentionally faked/distorted and accurate maps were classified until the 1990’s.
9wdQ6 TIL in 2001, Mattel made a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick that led to many questionable Amazon user reviews. They discontinued the toy after adult stores in Times Square started selling them for twice their original retail price
L5bm TIL Nixon’s strategy during Vietnam was called the Madman Theory and it focused on making the enemy think Nixon was insane and if provoked would act irrational.
Zaea TIL a jail in Brazil allows its inmates to pedal exercise bikes to power lights in a nearby town in exchange for reduced sentences
LknGd Til A man was stabbed in Disney land, and Disney land didn’t call the medical assistance because it would “ruin the magic”.