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TIL Occupy Wall Street was Infiltrated by the US Gov't and Dismantled from Within

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9Y4Q TIL that the fastest object ever made was a manhole cover accidentally launched by a nuclear explosion.
MeJNW TIL that there's an instrument you can use to measure the 'blueness' of the sky
x6lwD TIL The film Baby Driver was inspired by Noel Fielding's performance in a Mint Royale music video
0wBkM TIL that Area 51, aka Homey Airport or Groom Lake, was actually a testing facility for historical, technologically advanced military planes such as the Lockheed A-12. The US government's secrecy over the nature of these vehicles is what gave birth to myths about UFOs.
6mmw TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary lists words with the suffix ’-ize’ (e.g., realize, organize) over the more popular British English ’-ise’, stating it to be both phonetic and closer to its Greek origin