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TIL typical Australian bird kookaburras is a kind of kingfisher

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WJV9 TIL Many investigators believed that some if not all the crew of The Challenger disaster survived the explosion unharmed and were conscious for the full 2 minutes 45 seconds it took for the Crew Cabin to return to Earth, before being killed by collision force when the module hit the sea.
VB78m TIL There is a entire species of roaches that look like cute green little aliens.
ONk6 TIL of the US 77th Division’s “Lost Battalion”, nine WWI companies that held their ground in the Argonne for six days after accidentally advancing too far; surrounded by Germans, shelled by their own artillery, and low on rations and ammunition, only 194 out of approximately 544 men were rescued
JYwgl TIL at the Starbucks located inside of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, customer names cannot be called out or written on cups due to security concerns.
0wY5M TIL that in the movie 'Titanic' , if you take away the modern-day scenes and the credits, the runtime is the same time it took for the real ship to sink (2 hours and 40 minutes).