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TIL Saint Nicolas (the real Santa) is technically Asian as he was born in Antalya, Turkey

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MenjV TIL that the speed record for a vehicle on rails is no less than 6,416 mph, or Mach 8.4, set by a rocket sled in 2003 at Holloman Air Force Base.
kdm7 TIL that in 1995 an Australian doctor created the ‘Deliverance Machine’: a euthanasia device which utilised a software called 'Deliverance’ - patients were posed three questions via a notebook computer, if they answered yes to all three, the machine administered a lethal dose of barbiturates.
R57N4 TIL that there were Italian POWs in Riverside, California in 1942
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