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

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Edmx TIL bots are responsible for 90% of traffic to the US Ticketmaster website, and 60% of ticket sales on the most popular events
peb8 TIL:Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets.Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”
Bg7be TIL the writers of Predator got the idea from a joke following Rocky IV, that since Rocky had run out of earthly opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth film were to be made.
wLZJW TIL while on the set on Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Nicholas Cage had a stalker who also happened to be a mime. When talking about the experience Cage said, ""I was being stalked by a mime—silent, but maybe deadly."
4XyEJ TIL the park that contains the Confederate "memorial" on Stone Mountain was opened exactly 100 years after Lincolns assassination.