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TIL That a $34 million SR-71 Blackbird fell apart in mid-air due to a 2 inch piece of duct tape

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Y7DYB TIL that women hold 14 of the longest 23 neutral endurance records in marathon swimming
gbMb TIL: A former President of the University of Chicago said that colleges and universities would “find themselves converted into educational hobo jungles” if Congress made it easier for war veterans to attend those institutions.
b6o7a TIL of Félix Faure, a French President who died while receiving a blowjob. A ship named after him also went down.
Oo4pe TIL a substitute teacher in Ohio was convicted of four felony counts and sentenced to 90 days in jail along with 3 years of probation, for showing a high school Spanish class the 2012 horror film “The ABCs of Death”.
awKk9 TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution.