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TIL "Adam" is just the Hebrew word for "man"

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xnwB TIL that the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on earth with top speeds reaching up to 220 mph.
wL6mE TIL that Winston Churchill was the third great grandson of an American Major in the Revolutionary War.
X0onk TIL that Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda hosted a wrap-party for their 1969 film “Easy Rider”, before realizing that they forgot to shoot the final campfire scene. The motorcycles used in the film were previously stolen from set, which is why they’re not visible in the final campfire scene.
0wwMp TIL of Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic, who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute of 10,160 meters (33,330ft)
lrbB TIL: HIV is no longer a death sentence, the life expectancy for a HIV positive person is almost equal to a HIV negative person.