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TIL that DARPA developed an aircraft that reached speeds between Mach 17 and Mach 22

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5Vbk TIL that Ian McDiarmid (Palpatine/The Emperor) was only 39 when he played The Emperor in “Return of the Jedi”
KYbG9 TIL-Dogs can smell various types of cancers in humans to include melanoma, lung, ovarian, and more
N7gEQ TIL that penguin prostitutes have sex with unattached males and take a pebble from the male's nest after having sex
nEPY TIL that someone who views child pornagraphy could get a longer prison sentence than someone who rapes a child. NSFW
N798P TIL of Clement Vallandigham, the congressman who accidentally shot himself in court while trying to demonstrate that the death of a man was accidental suicide, rather than murder. (He won the case, but also died.)