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

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OoAL4 TIL that a deaf painter named Granville Redmond befriended Charlie Chaplin and helped him develop the techniques he used in his silent movies. Chaplin gave Redmond a studio on the movie lot, collected his paintings, and sponsored him in silent roles.
709r TIL that Anonymous started targeting sites hosting child pornography
jrlj TIL After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, hundreds of people (many of them already injured), made their way towards Nagasaki. Of these, 165 survived BOTH atomic bombings and lived to tell the tale.
rwVW TIL that two surgeons used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube to operate on a collapsed lung during an airplane flight - and succeeded
4kA75 TIL the closest living land relative to the elephant is … The Rock Hyrax, a small guinea-pig like mammal