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TIL NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second

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ne8bo TIL Small Wisconsin town in 1967 planned to secede from state after accidentally being removed off the official highway map. Also there's a musical about it.
XE5Ak TIL hippopotamus can defecate so much in the water they're in, that fish start to die because the bacteria in the hippo's feces use up the majority of the oxygen contained in the river.
kJvV4 TIL that Makoto Shinkai, director of the anime films Your Name, Weathering with You, and Suzume no Tojimari , had an asteroid named after him in 2018.
Q5Ga TIL The 9/11 memorial also includes 6 names of victims from a bombing that occurred in 1993.
kJ5Ye TIL that during WWII, Ford's mile-long ‘Willow Run Liberator Bomber Assembly Line” produced B-24’s at a rate of one every hour. A symbol of American wartime industrial might, it exemplified how industry (and millions of women) pivoted to support the war effort, a vital part of the Allied victory: