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TIL that Agatha Christie kept her final Poirot novel locked away in a bank vault for 30 years. And it's currently on free display at Cambridge University

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Vvx4 TIL During WWII they developed an ultra long range fighter to escort bomber raids in the Pacific…by joining two heavily modified P-51 Mustangs with one single wing. It still holds the record for longest flight of a piston powered fighter, after flying more than 5000 miles from Hawaii to New York
NXwMM TIL Jack in the Box serves boba at select locations
JXgk TIL there are only three artists who have achieved a Top 40 hit in every decade since the 1980s: Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Weird Al Yankovic
mxVM TIL it would be cheaper to give homeless people homes than to let them live on the street
4KDN TIL that trilobites, the ancient ancestors of lobsters, had eyes made of calcite crystals.