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TIL that the F-22 Raptor took so long to develop, that the CPUs for its in flight computer had become obsolete by three generations by the time the first production jet flew in 1997, resulting in even further delays as a new flight computer had to be designed based on the PowerPC processor.

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PYBbn TIL while the winners of the 1971 Cannonball Run - a street race across the USA - were driving a Ferrari Daytona, the 2nd place finishers had a Chevy van fitted with a 248-gallon auxiliary tank to minimize the refuel count. The van took only 53 minutes longer than the Ferrari to finish the race in.
Y7GXG TIL a quine is a computer program that takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.
AJXl TIL El Paso, TX was once considered the second-safest city in America. Meanwhile, the Mexican city with which it shares a border, Juarez, had one of the highest murder rates in the world.
VMLOm TIL Instant ramen was invented by Momofuku Ando in 1958 and. in 2000, voted Japan's greatest invention of the 20th century by the Japanese themselves.
b9n57 TIL the Gretzky brothers hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers (2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent)