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TIL the highest paid public official is not a legislator or head of state. With a salary of 7.09 million dollars it is actually Nick Saban the head football coach for The University of Alabama.

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GYwNQ TIL the US military is developing a plane capable of Mach 6 (4,600 mph) to succeed the now-retired SR-71 Blackbird, which flew at Mach 2.8. This new plane, the SR-72, is unmanned, will perform surveillance and reconnaisance, and a protoype will fly in 2025 before entering service in 2030.
b6o8a TIL It took 20,000 hours of underwater repairs but the United States managed to refloat a majority of the battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor. Recovered ships including the USS West Virginia, USS California, USS Tennessee, USS Maryland, and USS Pennsylvania all fought in the Philippines.
VM1LQ TIL that in 1859 the most powerful recorded solar storm shocked telegraph operators through their machines and set their papers on fire.
R7eR4 TIL that before women became the mainstay telephone operators were teenage boys. The change came about when the lads being pesky teenagers pulled too many pranks, got drunk on the job and swore down the phone
KOJ6G TIL that one of the largest mammals to ever exist was an elephant-sized ground sloth