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TIL In 1973 scientists chased the eclipse in the Concord at Mach 2 and were able to view the totality for 74 minutes

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bjj0 TIL two sisters know as the Gibbons twins were so inseparable they had a coded language & committed crimes together, oh, and repeatedly tried to murder each other.
A7XB TIL a 2005 FX docudrama (“Oil Storm”) portended a major hurricane hitting New Orleans causing citizens to take refugee in the Superdome and a resulting national increase in gas price… A scant three months before Katrina.
16nD7 TIL the name for the state of California has nothing to do with indigenous languages. The name comes from a popular Spanish chivalric romance series where California is a fictional island (1510)
NXPbJ TIL In order to prepare for his work "The Raft of the Medusa" T.Géricault obsessively studied dead bodies in order to depict them accurately. He observed dying patients at a hospital and brought severed limbs into his art studio, including a severed head he spend two weeks observing
oGlK TIL The Aurora Ice Hotel in Alaska was made entirely of ice. Ice walls, ceiling, beds, bar, barstools, even martini glasses were made of ice. It was closed by the fire marshall for not having smoke detectors.