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TIL of a plane engine system that will be able to take a person anywhere in the world in four hours. The new system is called SABRE, which is a jet engine that also doubles as a rocket engine. In a commercial plane, 300 passengers will whizz around the world at five times the speed of sound.

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VvrB TIL of William Jackson Marion, who was hanged for the murder of John Cameron. Four years later, the “victim” returned from his travels
xW4D TIL - When Pope Francis released white doves from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Rome the “symbol-of-peace” birds were immediately attacked by a seagull and a crow.
E1ZLX TIL that the first two women to climb the Matterhorn did so in skirts and the third, Annie Smith Peck, was nearly arrested as she was the first to do so in pants.
d0Zr TIL that the writer of Tomb Raider and Mirror’s Edge is Rhianna Pratchett, Terry Pratchett’s daughter. She also contribute to Bioshock Infinite.
M7rwb TIL after communists overthrew Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, they established the Derg regime that massacred thousands of people in Ethiopia