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TIL that a German probe is the fastest man-made object in history

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rRQZd TIL, in 1976, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations determined the JFK and MLK assassinations were likely the result of conspiracies.
gr54b TIL in the Siege of Leningrad, Nobel laureate economist and mathematician Leonid Kantorovich calculated an optimal distance between cars on the Road of Life based on temperature and ice thickness to ensure they didn't sink into Lake Ladoga. He walked between cars on the lake to ensure they complied.
E1lx0 TIL there was a lengthy storyline on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" (traditionally a quasi-realistic down to Earth series) where a character was possessed by Satan and tried to bring about the ruination of the Church.
XEjO6 TIL of a tiger who terrorized rural villages in Asia and is estimated to have killed 436 people
R7896 TIL of the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space. Starfish Prime, a July 9, 1962 high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States was launched from Johnston Island. The resulting EMP damage shut down communications, street lights and set off burglar alarms in the Hawaiian islands.