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TIL The fastest piloted aircraft was the X-15. It had 199 total flights and set the speed record at 4,520 mph/2,808 kmh (Mach 6.7)

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bvMN TIL in 1985, two men forced their way into Fran Drescher’s home. While one ransacked the house, the other raped Drescher and her friend at gunpoint. Her husband was also physically attacked, tied up, and forced to witness the entire ordeal.
6EGQX TIL that whale meat was the single biggest source of meat in Japan from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Whaling only took off in the country as a result of a food shortage after World War II.
ADLQ4 TIL Bill Irwin, the voice of the robot TARS from Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR, was also the silent comedian Mr. Noodle from Elmo's World on "Sesame Street".
QJPbp TIL Leonardo de Vinci isn't the only one who painted the "Mona Lisa", his student Francesco painted a version her too. Francisco's painting has been kept in far better condition and is currently on display at the Prado museum in Madrid.
EBEw TIL of Ewa Wiśnierska, a German paraglider that survived lightning, pounding hail, -40°C temperatures and oxygen deprivation after a storm system sucked her to an altitude higher than Mount Everest.