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TIL That the concorde could burn upto 2 tonnes of fuel just to taxi to the runway, however once at Mach 2 it was the most fuel efficient engine ever built.

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Eg6vo TIL of the 'Petticoat Revolution' of 1916 in which seven women led secret campaigns to gain control of the town of Umatilla, OR
QNDGp TIL - In Marseille, France - there is an extremely violent drug gang called Yoda. One of their symbols is Yoda from Star Wars smoking a joint.
1aG9r TIL that in 2002 Snoop Dogg officially announced that he was done with marijuana, however, by 2013 Snoop admitted to smoking around 80 blunts every day.
VMoZ4 TIL the Canadian province of Alberta has effectively prevented rats from spreading there, and it's even illegal to have a pet rat
M7rQ0 TIL The Turbo Encabulator is a fictional electromechanical machine with a satirical technobabble description that became a famous in-joke among engineers after it was published by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers. Technical documentation has been written for the non-existent machine.