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TIL that the fastest object ever made was a manhole cover accidentally launched by a nuclear explosion.

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x65Rw TIL in 2021, legendary brazilian Shaggy's voice actor, Mário Monjardim, died 3 days after Orlando Drummond, also the brazilian Scooby-Doo's voice actor, died too.
0wQDA TIL the 2nd deadliest day for law enforcement in the U.S. was a 1917 bomb attack that killed nine Milwaukee police officers. The original target was a local church but a boy discovered the suspicious package and brought it to the police department, where it exploded. (The deadliest day was 9/11.)
6R1w TIL an astronaut threw a boomerang while in a space station and it returned to him. As long as there is air to provide the necessary forces, a boomerang will return to its thrower, even in the weightlessness of Earth’s orbit.
v189B TIL "I Get Around" was released as a single in May 1964 along with "Don't Worry Baby" as its B-side and became the Beach Boy's first number-one charting song in the United States.
9YlKQ TIL that the traditional "Last Meal" for those sentenced to death begun as a way to bribe their ghost not to haunt the executioners.