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TIL Fiat produced a car in 1911 that did 180 mph (290 kph)

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69QR8 TIL that Opera Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink toured the U.S. to raise money for American forces in World War I while her son was in the German Navy.
j6XAQ TIL Silphium is an unidentified/extinct plant - the exact identity is unclear, highly debated - that was used as a contraceptive and an abortifacient by ancient Greeks and Romans. The plant was also used as seasoning, medicine, perfume, aphrodisiac.
gr6xL TIL Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune
x6a6D TIL THAT ST VALENTINE,S REMAINS ARE LOCATED IN THE WHITEFRIAR STREET CHURCH IN DUBLIN
R5wvl TIL killer whales are the second most widely-distributed mammal on Earth (after humans)