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b6ZR4 TIL of the Order of Malta Passport. It's the rarest passport in the world and is only issued to a few hundred people.
AD0Mg TIL That the Space Shuttle always fired its main engines 6.6 seconds before the side rockets. If the main engines failed to start there’d be no way to stop the side rockets because they cannot be shut off once ignited.
ZpRrY TIL there was a lost parody of the Iliad called the Diliad.
9wvaD TIL that in the '80s the president of Zaire built a 3200 meter landing strip in the jungle next to his palace so he could charter Concord flights to Paris
DVEg TIL A nurse was in vegetative state for 42 years after sexual assault while the perpetrator was out of prison in 14 years. She recently died.