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TIL The asteroid impact that killed dinosaurs triggered a "mega earthquake" that lasted for months

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W7wM8 TIL a man bought all the spare B-2 windshields and used them in his daughter’s tree house. The USAF had to buy them back to replace a damaged Spirit windshield.
rRmPo TIL that because the Space Shuttle was so hard to land (it was nicknamed "the flying brick"), shuttle crews must train in a modified Gulfstream with its main landing gears down, its engines in reverse, and its left hand side windows covered.
4koPg TIL that out of some 50 sovereign Island countries. Only 3 are connected to neighbouring country. Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, UK to France, Singapore to Malaysia.
kZVd TIL that Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, made demands for whiskey in the last days of his life and became belligerent when he was refused.
9Y8YB TIL after Winston Churchill was knocked down by a car New York in 1931, his doctor issued a medical note that Churchill’s convalescence “necessitates the use of alcoholic spirits especially at mealtimes,” specifying 250 cc (8 oz) per day as the minimum