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TIL that Runescape has been remade inside Minecraft, including Tutorial Island and Quests.

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Y77rW TIL the first supersonic airliner was not the Concorde or Tu-144, but a DC-8. During a test flight in 1961 it achieved supersonic speed for 16 seconds while in a dive. Accompanying the airliner in a chase plane was Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
9eOp TIL Ore trains in Sweden traveling down to the coast generate five times the amount of electricity they use, powering nearby towns and the return trip for other trains.
wokKM TIL Hippos and cetaceans (orca, dolphins, whales, etc.) evolved from a common ancestor and are each others closest known relatives.
ReXj TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
p6pZ TIL: The leader of the Church of Scientology served as Tom Cruise’s best man at his wedding and his own wife disappeared in 2007 after she “filled several job vacancies without her husband’s permission”.