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TIL in 1973 a Concorde aircraft prototype performed the longest observation of a total solar eclipse (74 minutes)

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mplM TIL that “Baby Huey” was a 400lbs Chicago soul singer who died at age 26 after releasing a single unsuccessful album. The album later became hugely influential on early hiphop artists, eventually being sampled on hundreds of hiphop tracks over the past 35 years
rNd8e Today I learned that George Washington was not the first President, in fact he was technically the 8th
d8EeB TIL After Lunar Module saved astronauts on Apollo 13 mission, it's company sent a bill for $312,421.24 for towing services (as a joke) to company who made malfunctioned service module, and they in response declined payment stating last 3 times they carried Lunar Module for free.
4koyJ TIL that Abba turned down an offer of $1 billion to play 100 shows
rRA7w TIL that the dots in the middle of words defined in the dictionary are to indicate where they should be hyphenated if you have to drop a line