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TIL U-2 Spy planes requires chase cars that can accelerate 0-100mph in a short period of time at both landing and take-off.

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x6b05 TIL: PBS reported on a study which details which part of a human body you should eat first that provides the most nutritional value using 4 dead bodies. Ignore kidneys, pancreas, and teeth and aim for the butt muscles, thighs, and skin. The researcher found it difficult to eat bacon afterwards.
xV4jo TIL that before there was a presumption in favor of mothers in (Anglo-American) child custody laws, there was a presumption in favor of fathers. This is because, under the law of the time, children were treated as the father's property/servants.
WnJ8 TIL that not only are there feral macaque colonies in the United States, one of the ones in (of course) Florida is infected with a particularly virulent strain of Herpes that has a mortality rate of over fifty percent in humans.
BrEdL TIL of mysterious radio signals, called "perytons", that mimicked signals from deep space but were detected only at Parkes Observatory in Australia. They were actually caused by opening a microwave oven's door early.
0d7Wj TIL that In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log in to any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'. At the time, it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web"