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TIL of Trivialism, the philosophical belief that every statement is true, including logical contradictions

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4kVMo TIL U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, at the controls of his rocket-powered Bell X-1, named “Glamorous Glennus” for his wife, breaks the sound barrier. Yeager achieves a top speed of Mach 1.07 before descending safely.
78WeL TIL Blockbuster didn't die - There's still one dubbed as "The Last Blockbuster"
kJWMm TIL there's a 4 gallon aquarium in France that mimics the conditions of an ocean zone that's over a mile under sea level
mjNY TIL every sweater that Mr. Rogers wore in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was hand-knit by his mother.
mxwjY TIL: Scientists in India found a new species of pit vipers and named it after Salazar Slytherin. The new species is called Salazar’s spit viper.