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TIL how one of just two XB-70 supersonic bomber prototypes was lost during a 1966 photo-op for GE

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1aDyd TIL Emotional support insects are a thing and got banned by American Airlines
pY88A TIL Christopher Lee helped assassinate "the Butcher of Prague"
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