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TIL that the professional wrestler Kane is the Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee

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Av4l TIL about Muphry’s law. It states that a written​ criticism of editing will always contain an editing error.
J1O5m TIL about The Colour of Animals, an 1890 book which made the first comprehensive argument about why animals are coloured the way they are.
E1xr7 TIL The McDonnell Douglas F-15 can reach 30,000 ft (9,100m) in 60 seconds and has a thrust-to-weight ratio that allows the aircraft to accelerate while flying straight up. It is also the only aircraft to ever shoot down a satellite orbiting in space.
ovLK TIL, that in 2005, documentary film makers gave a homeless person $100,000 in cash, and followed him to see what he would do with the money. 6 months later, he was completely broke and back in the same place he was before the windfall.
W7d48 TIL that Cpt. Kirk & Lt. Uhura's kiss from Star Trek was NOT the first interracial kiss on Television.