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TIL Orville Wright lived to see jets and the first supersonic flight

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VMWAB TIL that “snarge” is the term used by the FAA for the residue and feathers left on an aircraft after a bird collides with it
Z8pB4 TIL all the 360 kilogrammes of lunar soil samples brought back from the Apollo missions have now rusted after corroding their vacuum bottle seals and being exposed to water and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
W4rX TIL an archaic term for the kestrel was windfucker
X0ErQ TIL the reason milk is sold in bags throughout eastern Canada is linked to the countries transition to the metric system. Dairy producers, faced with having to replace and resize existing milk containers (measured in imperial quarts), found the use of bags to be a cheaper and quicker alternative
XEDMQ TIL the Hyena is NOT a canine species. Instead it's part of the feliform suborder and thus closer to a cat-like species.