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TIL that the river Thames in England is 47 million years older than the Amazon

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am4J TIL Tex Johnson, a Boeing test pilot, was to demonstrate the then-new 707 to a group of airline executives by doing a level fly by. Instead, he barrel-rolled the aircraft. When called in by his boss and asked what the hell he was doing, he said “Selling airplanes.”
gbx7 TIL that sending an all female crew to Mars would be significantly cheaper than sending men.
n0x7 TIL hand dryers in public bathrooms are actually the exact opposite of sanitary.
Yp54x TIL that to promote Spinal Tap’s 1992 album, Break Like The Wind, radio stations were sent a colander labelled as "Spinal Tap Official 1992 Calendar".
Rdwa TIL that HBO used some 160 lawyers to vet its film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief because of the notorious litigiousness of the Church of Scientology.