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TIL it is illegal to fly faster than the speed of sound over the United States.

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b9xXN TIL animal life in Chernobyl is thriving, not because the radiation is gone, there’s still a lot of it, but because there’s barely any humans living in that area.
xg95 TIL on 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
ZZGB TIL of the worlds smartest dog, Endal. Who could even work an ATM properly.
19O7 TIL that despite elephants massive size compared to humans, they are 5 times less likely to die of cancer due to them having at least 40 copies of TP53, a gene that destroys cancer cells before they become a problem, versus 2 in humans.
J9l8 TIL that Japanese tourists often find Paris so disappointing that they get physically sick. It’s called the Paris Syndrome.