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TIL the record for the fastest manned aircraft was set in 1959, and still hasn’t been broken.

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RdWa TIL A Green Bay Packers fan regularly donated blood in order to afford tickets to games. He later found out that he had a potentially deadly blood disease that was only preventable through blood donation. He had without knowing it been saving his life the entire time.
ZpGbv TIL that Jerry Springer died over a year ago! .... Seriously. Wtf?!
awXlJ TIL about Neil Harbisson, a man who has an antenna permanency attached/implanted into his skull, which allows him to feel colors, receive data from the internet and satellites, and much more. He is considered the world's first cyborg.
grAl4 TIL John Candy was reputedly the "most-burned potential host" of SNL, in that he was asked to host many times, only for plans to be changed by the SNL staff at the last minute.
GYKPG TIL about Frisland, a "phantom/imaginary" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.