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

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GAV5J TIL people milk horses and sell this mare milk in specialty stores
lZjK TIL of Tibetan Sky Burials, a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposing to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially birds of prey.
4ky16 TIL that Gates of the Arctic in Alaska is the northernmost National Park in the U.S. It’s three times the size of Yellowstone but sees fewer visitors in a year than Yellowstone gets in a single day.
5ooQ TIL that a 2012 study concluded that pop music has grown louder and increasingly musically homogeneous since the mid-1960s
M7Lg7 TIL of Elizabeth Báthory. She is alleged to have killed more than 600 people in order to drink their blood and bathe in it, ostensibly to preserve her youth.