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TIL that in 1975 Air France commissioned to French composer Franck Pourcel an anthem for their new supersonic plane, the Concorde

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jNKmM TIL a Ladybug can travel at speeds of up to 37 MPH for up to two hours at heights of up to 3,600 feet
W7YBN TIL that early in Edgar Allen Poe's writing career, he published an essay exposing a fake chess-playing automaton that was actually operated by a chess master hidden inside. The essay employs a method of deduction called 'ratiocination' which is used by C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective.
XE1NP TIL scientists didn't know where birds went in the winter until 1822. That year, a stork was seen in Germany with an arrow from central Africa lodged in its neck, having flown 3,000 km in its wounded state. This provided the final proof that birds migrate.
nWnbb TIL The blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield got famous through a media blitz and a series of intentional wardrobe malfunctions. Mansfield's strategically busting seams got her constant coverage, even her measurements were nationally famous. In 1960 Mansfield was in more print than anyone else on earth.
mxM9O TIL Caffeine is a psychoactive drug that populates a list among others such as Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, Ecstasy, LSD, Xanax, Fentanyl, Percocet, Psilocybe Mushrooms, and Amanita Muscaria.