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TIL that the first person to break the sound barrier wasn't Chuck Yeager. That record belongs to Nazi test pilot Lothar Sieber, who crashed his rocket powered (partially) wooden aircraft into the ground at just over Mach 1 in 1945.

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RQa6 TIL that the Netherlands used to flood certain areas in times of war to create a military defensive line. The water was too shallow for boats, but deep enough to hide traps and ditches under.
E1aZW TIL Tiny portions of the Wright Flyer were taken to the moon and back aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. Another few were taken aboard the Challenger on it’s final flight, and recovered from the wreckage. All of these pieces are now in display in North Carolina.
rR77d Coffee makes 30 percent of people poop
KO99w TIL That the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert shortly before the Lincoln assassination. Edwin stopped Robert from being run over by a train on a crowded platform, after he had fallen forward on the tracks.
wLwKo TIL that 93% of people who ever existed on this planet are now dead ,and about 50% of them were kiled by malaria.