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

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OoXbR TIL that half of all sailors on a given trip were expected to die of scurvy during the 1600s.
kJwe1 TIL in 2019, a former US spy killed a British teen by driving on the wrong side of the road in the UK. She was granted diplomatic immunity, fled the UK, and never returned. It took 3 years for her to be sentenced and she received no jail time.
5Z89 TIL the son of the man who founded conversion therapy came out as gay.
KO6mG TIL that the city of Holland, Michigan, has 168 miles of tubing coiled underneath its streets, circulating hot water in order to melt any snow on the ground.
neRyP TIL about Bamboo torture where a person would be fixed in place over fast growing bamboo to be impaled over time.