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TIL that sand is a finite resource and we are running out.

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nWE4B TIL on the Soviet supersonic plane Tu-144 it was so noisy people sitting next to each other could only hear each other by yelling. People sitting two seats from each other couldn't hear each other even screaming.
4W8b TIL during WW2, Krystyna Skarbek became a British spy and smuggled intelligence reports and anti-tanks guns from Hungary to the Allies. When she was arrested by Gestapo, she bit her tongue hard enough to bleed and convinced them she had tuberculosis, which made them release her.
E1JAd TIL former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) met both John Quincy Adams and a young JFK. He'd also relate stories of his grandmother watching the Redcoats invade colonial America.
p15p TIL: Trading Places’ Was Originally Written for Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor
bOJE TIL Dave Chappelle was originally offered the role of Bubba in Forest Gump, but turned it down. A decision he later regretted