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TIL Why Planes Aren’t Flying Any Faster—and Won’t Any Time Soon

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yOV TIL That “Come Together” by the Beatles was originally written as a campaign song for Timothy Leary’s campaign against Ronald Reagan to become Governor of California
jWpa TIL many words in the Greek language have no clear origin (including ‘labyrinth’ and 'tyranny’), and are thought to have come from an unrecorded 'Pre-Greek’ language spoken before the early Greeks arrived in the area
D1rrp TIL the Aurora Borealis makes sounds
vxQ4 TIL Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.
1avkV TIL that DNA tests revealed that King Tut's parents were actually brother and sister.