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TIL that Top Fuel dragsters accelerate faster than fighter jets and space shuttles, pulling over 5 Gs at launch!

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BromD TIL The term 'Mahoska' from 'The Untouchables', misquoted as 'mahaska', originates from the Irish phrase 'My Business'.
4XLQw TIL that a single dynasty has occupied the position of Emperor of Japan continually for over two thousand years, so long that the first 28 emperors are likely legendary.
Zpn0R TIL that car racing sanctioning bodies, like the AIACR, imposed national race car colors around 1900. Think "British Racing Green" and American dark blue and white. Red for Italy. Silver for Germany. Blue for France. Yellow was Belgium's official color.
ZEOY TIL in 2001, IT at UNC decided to do a server audit. They realized that they could not find one of their best performing servers. Eventually resorting to following the physical cabling, they hit a wall, literally. The server had been buried behind a wall during remodeling for over 4 years.
WMV8 TIL that when oxygen first developed on Earth, it wiped out nearly ~99% of all life.